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CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Woman on the Trail [11]
II.The Dim Trail [40]
III.Converging Trails [53]
IV.This Picture and That [72]
V.Dakota Evens a Score [88]
VI.Kindred Spirits [111]
VII.Bogged Down [121]
VIII.Sheila Fans a Flame [146]
IX.Strictly Business [163]
X.Duncan Adds Two and Two [196]
XI.A Parting and a Visit [215]
XII.A Meeting on the River Trail [233]
XIII.The Shot in the Back [254]
XIV.Langford Lays Off the Mask [275]
XV.The Parting on the River Trail [303]
XVI.Sheriff Allen Takes a Hand [310]
XVII.Doubler Talks [323]
XVIII.For Dakota [336]
XIX.Some Memories [344]
XX.Into the Unknown [359]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“If you want the parson to die, don’t look at me when he steps in.”[Frontispiece]
“Won’t you please get us out of this?”[134]
Duncan grasped for his pistol, but the hand holding it was stamped violently into the earth.[161]