LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| SHE GAVE HIM A ROLLING-PIN AND HE SET TO WORK, | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| AMONG THE COMPANY THAT NIGHT THERE WERE TWO GUESTS WHO “HAPPENED IN” QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY, | [14] |
| THE GIRLS OF THE PLACE TURNED ASIDE, WHENEVER THEY MET THEM, AND PASSED BY WITH THEIR HEADS HELD HIGH, | [96] |
| HE CARRIED OFF IN TRIUMPH A PAIR OF OLD HORSE-PISTOLS, | [124] |
| KU KLUX—“AWFUL FORMS WRAPPED LIKE GHOSTS IN WINDING-SHEETS,” | [238] |
| BEFORE HIM STOOD, TALL AND GRAY, THE INDIAN-KILLER, | [262] |
| “I COULDN’T LET YOU BE RUN AWAY WITH AGAIN UNDER MY VERY EYES,” HE SAID, | [328] |
| STEVE STRETCHED, AND, PICKING UP HIS BOOK, DIVED ONCE MORE INTO THE “IDYLLS OF THE KING,” | [376] |
| SHE GAVE A STEP FORWARD AND WITH A QUICK MOVEMENT PULLED THE MASK FROM HIS FACE, | [406] |
| STILL SPRUNG TO HIS FEET IN UNCONTROLLABLE AGITATION, HIS FACE LIVID, | [464] |
| AND THERE, IN THE LITTLE PARLOR, STEVE AND RUTH WERE MARRIED, | [570] |
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