ILLUSTRATED BY

V. HERBERT DUNTON

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

1907

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [RANCHER WINSTON]
II. [LANCE COURTHORNE]
III. [TROOPER SHANNON'S QUARREL]
IV. [IN THE BLUFF]
V. [MISS BARRINGTON COMES HOME]
VI. [ANTICIPATIONS]
VII. [WINSTON'S DECISION]
VIII. [WINSTON COMES TO SILVERDALE]
IX. [COURTHORNE DISAPPEARS]
X. [AN ARMISTICE]
XI. [MAUD BARRINGTON'S PROMISE]
XII. [SPEED THE PLOW]
XIII. [MASTERY RECOGNIZED]
XIV. [A FAIR ADVOCATE]
XV. [THE UNEXPECTED]
XVI. [FACING THE FLAME]
XVII. [MAUD BARRINGTON IS MERCILESS]
XVIII. [WITH THE STREAM]
XIX. [UNDER TEST]
XX. [COURTHORNE BLUNDERS]
XXI. [THE FACE AT THE WINDOW]
XXII. [COLONEL BARRINGTON IS CONVINCED]
XXIII. [SERGEANT STIMSON CONFIRMS HIS SUSPICIONS]
XXIV. [THE REVELATION]
XXV. [COURTHORNE MAKES REPARATION]
XXVI. [WINSTON RIDES AWAY]
XXVII. [REINSTATEMENT]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ FLOUNDERING ON FOOT BESIDE THEM HE URGED THE TEAM
THROUGH THE POWDERY DRIFTS . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ MAUD BARRINGTON LAUGHED A LITTLE ]

HE COULD SEE THE WHEAT ROLL IN SLOW RIPPLES BACK
INTO THE DISTANCE