CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Girl From Wyoming	[3]
II	"The Happy Family"	[10]
III	Pinkey	[18]
IV	The Brand of Cain	[24]
V	"Gentle Annie"	[33]
VI	"Burning His Bridges"	[42]
VII	His "Gat"	[47]
VIII	Neighbours	[62]
IX	Cutting His Eyeteeth	[69]
X	The Best Pulling Team in the State	[81]
XI	Merry Christmas	[92]
XII	The Water Witch	[112]
XIII	Wiped Out	[131]
XIV	Lifting a Cache	[142]
XV	Collecting a Bad Debt	[156]
XVI	The Exodus	[168]
XVII	Counting Their Chickens	[176]
XVIII	The Millionaires	[182]
XIX	A Shock For Mr. Canby	[196]
XX	Wallie Qualifies As a First-Class Hero	[207]
XXI	"Worman! Worman!"	[221]
XXII	"Knocking 'Em For a Curve"	[231]
XXIII	Rifts	[247]
XXIV	Hicks the Avenger	[261]
XXV	"And Just Then——"	[301]

THE DUDE WRANGLER

CHAPTER I

THE GIRL FROM WYOMING

Conscious that something had disturbed him, Wallie Macpherson raised himself on his elbow in bed to listen. For a full minute he heard nothing unusual: the Atlantic breaking against the sea-wall at the foot of the sloping lawn of The Colonial, the clock striking the hour in the tower of the Court House, and the ripping, tearing, slashing noises like those of a sash-and-blind factory, produced through the long, thin nose of old Mr. Penrose, two doors down the hotel corridor, all sounds to which he was too accustomed to be awakened by them.

While Wallie remained in this posture conjecturing, the door between the room next to him and that of Mr. Penrose was struck smartly several times, and with a vigour to denote that there was temper behind the blows which fell upon it. He had not known that the room was occupied; being considered undesirable on account of the audible slumbers of the old gentleman it was often vacant.

The raps finally awakened even Mr. Penrose, who demanded sharply:

Contents

THE DUDE WRANGLER

CHAPTER I

THE GIRL FROM WYOMING