| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Coming of Treve | [11] |
| II. | Thirst! | [39] |
| III. | Marooned | [70] |
| IV. | The Killer | [104] |
| V. | A Secret Adventure | [133] |
| VI. | Deserted | [155] |
| VII. | Theft and Untheft | [179] |
| VIII. | In the Hands of the Enemy | [205] |
| IX. | His Mate | [225] |
| X. | The Rustlers | [247] |
| XI. | The Parting of the Ways | [267] |
| XII. | Afterword | [290] |
Treve
CHAPTER I: THE COMING OF TREVE
The rickety and rackety train was droning along over the desert miles—miles split and sprinkled by cheerless semi-arid foothills. At dusk it had shrieked and groaned its way over a divide and slid clatteringly down the far side amid a screech of brakes.
Out into the desert-like plain with the scatter of less dead foothills it had emerged in early evening. Now, as midnight drew on, the desert ground—with its strewing of exquisite wild flowers here and there among the sick sage brush and crippled Joshua trees—took a less desolate aspect; though it was too dark a night for the few waking passengers to note this.