The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley

by Ridgwell Cullum

"Don't think that makes any difference. I shall marry him just the same."
Frontispiece.—The Trail of the Axe.

The Trail of the Axe

A Story of the Red Sand Valley

BY RIDGWELL CULLUM

Author of "The Watchers of the Plains,"
"The Sheriff of Dyke Hole", etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors

By CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Copyright, 1910, by
George W. Jacobs & Company

CONTENTS

CHAP.
I.	[Dave]
II.	[A Picnic in the Red Sand Valley]
III.	[Affairs in Malkern]
IV.	[Dick Mansell's News]
V.	[Jim Truscott Returns]
VI.	[Parson Tom Interferes]
VII.	[The Work at the Mills]
VIII.	[At the Church Bazaar]
IX.	[In Dave's Office]
X.	[An Auspicious Meeting]
XI.	[The Summer Rains]
XII.	[The Old Mills]
XIII.	[Betty Decides]
XIV.	[The Mills]
XV.	[Betty Takes Cover]
XVI.	[Disaster at the Mill]
XVII.	[The Last of the Sawyer]
XVIII.	[Face To Face]
XIX.	[In the Mountains]
XX.	[The Church Militant]
XXI.	[An Adventure in the Fog]
XXII.	[Terror in the Mountains]
XXIII.	[The Red Tide of Anarchy]
XXIV.	[In the Dead of Night]
XXV.	[Mason's Prisoner]
XXVI.	[To the Lumber Camp]
XXVII.	[At Bay]
XXVIII.	[Dave—the Man]
XXIX.	[The End of the Strike]
XXX.	[In the Dugout]
XXXI.	[At Midnight]
XXXII.	[Two Men—and a Woman]