1917

TO MY WIFE

BONNIE O’NEAL EMERSON

Our enchanting years of pleasure, dear, are speeding all too fast,

As our ever-fleeting joys become blest mem’ries of the past.

Heaven’s blessings, glad and golden, strew with bliss the paths of life

When a sweetheart, fond and cheery,

Has her “hubby” for her dearie,

And her “hubby” has a sweetheart for his wife.

—The Author.

January 18, 1917.


CONTENTS

[ CHAPTER I—Guadalupe ]

[ CHAPTER II—Charmed Lives ]

[ CHAPTER III—Feminine Attractions ]

[ CHAPTER IV—Back to the Soil ]

[ CHAPTER V—At La Siesta ]

[ CHAPTER VI—The Quarrel ]

[ CHAPTER VII—Old Bandit Days ]

[ CHAPTER VIII—A Letter from San Quentin ]

[ CHAPTER IX—Tia Teresa ]

[ CHAPTER X—The Home of the Recluse ]

[ CHAPTER XI—A Rejected Suitor ]

[ CHAPTER XII—The Sped Bullet ]

[ CHAPTER XIII—Accused ]

[ CHAPTER XIV—Entanglements ]

[ CHAPTER XV—Behind the Bars ]

[ CHAPTER XVI—Pierre Luzon Returns ]

[ CHAPTER XVII—The Bitter Bit ]

[ CHAPTER XVIII—Elusive Riches ]

[ CHAPTER XIX—The Jail Delivery ]

[ CHAPTER XX—In the Cavern ]

[ CHAPTER XXI—A Debt of Honor ]

[ CHAPTER XXII—Underqround Wonders ]

[ CHAPTER XXIII—The Unexpected Visitor ]

[ CHAPTER XXIV—In a Tight Corner ]

[ CHAPTER XXV—Love and Revenge ]

[ CHAPTER XXVI—A Date is Fixed ]

[ CHAPTER XXVII—Among the Old Oaks ]

[ CHAPTER XXVIII—The Prize Winner ]

[ CHAPTER XXIX—-The Rendezvous ]

[ CHAPTER XXX—Don Manuel Appears ]

[ CHAPTER XXXI—Shadows of the Past ]

[ CHAPTER XXXII—Forebodings ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIII—Old Friends ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIV—Heart Searchings ]

[ CHAPTER XXXV—At Comanche Point ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVI—-Outwitted ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVII—The Dawn of Comprehension ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVIII—Exit Leach Sharkey ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIX—The Fight on the Cliff ]

[ CHAPTER XL—Revelation ]

[ CHAPTER XLI—Beneath the Precipice ]

[ CHAPTER XLII—Wedding Bells ]