This Edition published in September, 1906


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CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
IThe Portent [1]
IIHetty Takes Heed [12]
IIIThe Cattle-Barons [26]
IVMuller Stands Fast [39]
VHetty Comes Home [50]
VIThe Incendiary [62]
VIILarry Proves Intractable [72]
VIIIThe Sheriff [85]
IXThe Prisoner [96]
XOn the Trail [110]
XILarry’s Acquittal [122]
XIIThe Sprouting of the Seed [134]
XIIIUnder Fire [144]
XIVTorrance’s Warning [155]
XVHetty’s Bounty [165]
XVILarry Solves the Difficulty [177]
XVIILarry’s Peril [189]
XVIIIA Futile Pursuit [201]
XIXTorrance Asks a Question [212]
XXHetty’s Obstinacy [224]
XXIClavering Appears Ridiculous [238]
XXIIThe Cavalry Officer [250]
XXIIIHetty’s Avowal [262]
XXIVThe Stock Train [272]
XXVCheyne Relieves His Feelings [286]
XXVILarry’s Reward [296]
XXVIIClavering’s Last Card [309]
XXVIIILarry Rides to Cedar [321]
XXIXHetty Decides [331]
XXXLarry’s Wedding Day [343]
XXXITorrance Rides Away [355]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Come Down!”[Facing page 48]
“She’ll shoot me before she means to.”[66]
A white face and shadowy head, from which the fur cap had fallen.[114]
“Aren’t you a trifle late?”[160]
There was a note in her voice that set the man’s heart beating furiously.[268]
A fierce white frothing about him.[Frontispiece]