The Free Range

by Francis William Sullivan

E-text prepared by Roger Frank
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)

Transcriber’s note:
The titles given in the Table of Contents for Chapters VII and VIII differ from the chapter titles used in the text.

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They rode needlessly close together and swung their clasped hands like happy children.

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THE FREE RANGE

BY

ELWELL LAWRENCE

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

DOUGLAS DUER

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT 1913 BY

W. J. WATT & COMPANY

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Published June

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To MATHEW WHITE Jr.,

Editor, author, critic, friend.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Flinging The Gauntlet	[9]
II	A Late Arrival	[18]
III	An Unsettled Score	[31]
IV	The Six Pistol Shots	[39]
V	Strategy and a Surprise	[50]
VI	Ugly Company	[64]
VII	You Have Forgotten The Mask	[74]
VIII	Fiendish Revenge	[85]
IX	The Man in The Mask	[98]
X	War Without Quarter	[114]
XI	Made Prisoner	[124]
XII	Juliet Asserts Herself	[136]
XIII	The Heathen Chinee	[149]
XIV	Sentenced	[161]
XV	Cowland Topsy-Turvy	[176]
XVI	A Message By a Strange Hand	[190]
XVII	A Battle in The Dark	[203]
XVIII	The Immortal Ten	[217]
XIX	An Indian Coulee	[235]
XX	Somebody New Turns Up	[245]
XXI	Julie Investigates	[253]
XXII	The Use of Photography	[265]
XXIII	The Crossing	[279]
XXIV	The Story of Lester	[289]
XXV	The Threads Meet	[301]

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