Nan of Music Mountain
De Spain covered a hardly perceptible black object on the trail.
Published by Arrangement with Charles Scribner’s Sons
Copyright, 1916, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published April, 1916
Printed in U. S. A.
TO MY SON
EUGENE LONERGAN SPEARMAN
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Lefever, if there was a table in the room, could never be got to sit on a chair; and being rotund he sat preferably sidewise on the edge of the table. One of his small feet––his feet were encased in tight, high-heeled, ill-fitting horsemen’s boots––usually rested on the floor, the other swung at the end of his stubby leg slowly in the air. This idiosyncrasy his companion, de Spain, had learned to tolerate.
Frank H. Spearman
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Nan of Music Mountain
CHAPTER I
FRONTIER DAY
CHAPTER II
THE THIEF RIVER STAGE LINE
CHAPTER III
THE SPANISH SINKS
CHAPTER IV
FIRST BLOOD AT CALABASAS
CHAPTER V
ROUNDING UP SASSOON
CHAPTER VI
HEELS FOR IT
CHAPTER VII
MAINTAINING A REPUTATION
CHAPTER VIII
THE GAMBLING-ROOM
CHAPTER IX
A CUP OF COFFEE
CHAPTER X
THE GLASS BUTTON
CHAPTER XI
AFTER THE STORM
CHAPTER XII
ON MUSIC MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XIII
PARLEY
CHAPTER XIV
NAN DRIFTS
CHAPTER XV
CROSSING A DEEP RIVER
CHAPTER XVI
A VENTURE IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XVII
STRATEGY
CHAPTER XVIII
HER BAD PENNY
CHAPTER XIX
DANGER
CHAPTER XX
FACING THE MUSIC
CHAPTER XXI
A TRY OUT
CHAPTER XXII
GALE PERSISTS
CHAPTER XXIII
DE SPAIN WORRIES
CHAPTER XXIV
AN OMINOUS MESSAGE
CHAPTER XXV
A SURPRISING SLIP
CHAPTER XXVI
FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVII
EL CAPITAN
CHAPTER XXVIII
LEFEVER TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXIX
PUPPETS OF FATE
CHAPTER XXX
HOPE FORLORN
CHAPTER XXXI
DE SPAIN RIDES ALONE
CHAPTER XXXII
THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XXXIII
GAMBLING WITH DEATH
CHAPTER XXXIV
AT SLEEPY CAT