Outlaw Jack; or, the mountain devil

AUTHOR OF THE FOLLOWING POCKET NOVELS: 39.—Heart-Eater. 43.—The White Outlaw. 54.—Arkansas Jack. 66.—Rattling Dick. 71.—Delaware Tom. 77.—Scarlet Shoulders.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by FRANK STARR & CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CHAPTER I.
A BLOW IN THE DARK.
Well, Burr, any change to-day?
Yes—a great one.
For better or worse?
The road will be open for us to-morrow. She's dying.
Dying! is it possible? And the poor creature seemed so much better this morning.
Listen—there!
A quavering, pitiful wail came to their ears, proceeding from a small white tent, half-hidden beneath the low-hanging boughs of the grove. That cry told the two men, plainer than spoken words, the sad truth. It told of a household broken and dismembered; of a bereaved husband and daughter, of a dearly-beloved wife and mother who had journeyed thus far from the home of her childhood, only to find a lone grave upon the prairie, or beside the rock-bound rivulet that wound its noisy way adown the valley.