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CONTENTS

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I At Calamity Crossing [1]
II The Sympathetic Rescuer [12]
III At the Flying W [33]
IV A Memory of the Rider [42]
V Love vs. Business [56]
VI A Man and His Job [65]
VII How an Insult Was Avenged [78]
VIII What Uncle Jepson Heard [97]
IX “Somethin’s Gone Out of Them” [104]
X The Law of the Primitive [111]
XI Hagar’s Eyes [130]
XII The Rustlers [143]
XIII The Fight [160]
XIV The Rock and the Moonlight [166]
XV The Runaway Comes Home [184]
XVI Two Are Taught Lessons [188]
XVII The Target [202]
XVIII The Gunfighter [217]
XIX Ready Gun and Clean Heart [233]
XX The Bubble—Dreams [245]
XXI One Too Many [254]
XXII Into Which a Girl’s Trouble Comes [265]
XXIII Banishing a Shadow [278]
XXIV Realizing a Passion [291]
XXV A Man Is Born Again [313]
XXVI A Dream Comes True [328]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Randerson watches the newcomers[Frontispiece]
“I am Ruth Harkness, the new owner of the Flying W”[64]
The twilight was split by a red streak[97]
The grim, relentless figure behind him grew
grotesque and gigantic in his thoughts		[321]