CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Horse and His Rider[1]
II.How Cal Evans Rode for Help[15]
III.The Band of Kah-Go-Mish[23]
IV.The Garrison of Santa Lucia[27]
V.Cal and the Cavalry and the Red Mustang[32]
VI.The Peril of Santa Lucia[38]
VII.Bound for the Border[51]
VIII.Getting Ready to Chase Kah-Go-Mish[56]
IX.The Hacienda of Santa Lucia[63]
X.The Target on the Rock[67]
XI.The Story of a Log[75]
XII.Ping and the Cougar[82]
XIII.The Return of Kah-Go-Mish[89]
XIV.The Fountain in the Desert[94]
XV.Lost in the Chaparral[101]
XVI.An Invasion of Two Republics[107]
XVII.How Ping and Tah-Nu-Nu Got to the Spring[114]
XVIII.How Dick Played Sentinel[120]
XIX.Bad News for Wah-Wah-O-Be[126]
XX.How Cal Started for Mexico[132]
XXI.The Manitou of Cold Spring[139]
XXII.Across the Desert by Night[144]
XXIII.At the Ranch and in the Chaparral[151]
XXIV.Cal's Night Under a Tree[157]
XXV.A Strange Letter from Mexico[163]
XXVI.Cal's Visitors and His Breakfast[169]
XXVII.The Post-boy That Got Away[174]
XXVIII.The Mystery of the Sticks[180]
XXIX.How Would You Like Fire?[186]
XXX.The Manitou Water[192]
XXXI.Pull Stick and the Hurricane[198]
XXXII.Under a Fallen Tree[204]
XXXIII.Leaving the Bad-Medicine Camp[210]
XXXIV.Tah-Nu-Nu's Disappointment[216]
XXXV.Hand to Hand by Firelight[222]
XXXVI.How Cal Was Left All Alone[227]
XXXVII.Rescued by the Red Mustang[234]
XXXVIII.How All Reached Santa Lucia[239]