Shoe-Bar Stratton

by Joseph Bushnell Ames

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

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“I can stand here till I get tired,” retorted Lynch.

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Shoe-Bar Stratton

By JOSEPH B. AMES

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with The Century Company

Printed in U. S. A.

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Copyright, 1922, by

The Century Co.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

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To

BILL McBRIDE

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Back from the Dead	[3]
II	Crooked Work	[13]
III	Mistress Mary Quite Contrary	[24]
IV	The Branding-Iron	[31]
V	Tex Lynch	[41]
VI	The Blood-Stained Saddle	[51]
VII	Rustlers	[60]
VIII	The Hoodoo Outfit	[70]
IX	Revelations	[81]
X	Buck Finds Out Something	[91]
XI	Danger	[106]
XII	Thwarted	[119]
XIII	Counterplot	[127]
XIV	The Lady From the Past	[136]
XV	“Blackleg”	[145]
XVI	The Unexpected	[153]
XVII	The Primeval Instinct	[166]
XVIII	A Change of Base	[176]
XIX	The Mysterious Motor-Car	[186]
XX	Catastrophe	[197]
XXI	What Mary Thorne Found	[208]
XXII	Nerve	[219]
XXIII	Where the Wheel Tracks Led	[230]
XXIV	The Secret of North Pasture	[239]
XXV	The Trap	[248]
XXVI	Sheriff Hardenberg Intervenes	[256]
XXVII	An Hour Too Late	[268]
XXVIII	Forebodings	[276]
XXIX	Creeping Shadows	[284]
XXX	Lynch Scores	[291]
XXXI	Gone	[301]
XXXII	Buck Rides	[309]
XXXIII	Carried Away	[319]
XXXIV	The Fight on the Ledge	[332]
XXXV	The Dead Heart	[339]
XXXVI	Two Trails Converge	[345]

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