The Mystery of Lost River Canyon

by Harry Castlemon

Copyright, 1896,

BY

HENRY T. COATES & CO.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Prologue,	[5]
I.	George and his Uncle,	[11]
II.	Uncle Ruben Learns Something,	[22]
III.	A Surprise,	[34]
IV.	A Home in the Woods,	[46]
V.	A Capsize,	[58]
VI.	Dick Langdon’s Sentiments,	[70]
VII.	A Persevering Diver,	[81]
VIII.	Uncle Ruben Calls Again,	[92]
IX.	Lost in the Woods,	[104]
X.	The Masked Robbers,	[116]
XI.	An Angry Miser,	[129]
XII.	A Visit from the Sheriff,	[141]
XIII.	The Tables Turned,	[154]
XIV.	The Upshot of the Whole Matter,	[166]
XV.	The Rendezvous,	[179]
XVI.	How One Telegram was Received,	[192]
XVII.	Two New Characters,	[203]
XVIII.	How the Other was Received,	[215]
XIX.	Bob Hears Some Startling News,	[226]
XX.	A Merited Rebuke,	[239]
XXI.	The Mystery of the Canyon,	[251]
XXII.	The Idea Suggested,	[264]
XXIII.	Off for Camp,	[276]
XXIV.	The Terrors of the Canyon,	[288]
XXV.	Sam Asks for his Pay,	[302]
XXVI.	Arthur Tries to Help Himself,	[315]
XXVII.	The Listener in the Grove,	[328]
XXVIII.	A Hurried Flight,	[340]
XXIX.	The Mystery Solved,	[353]
XXX.	In the Mountains,	[366]
XXXI.	“All’s Well that Ends Well,”	[376]

THE

Mystery of Lost River Canyon.

PROLOGUE.

One hot, sultry August afternoon, a weary horse, whose heaving sides and foam-flecked breast bore evidence to the fact that he had been driven long and rapidly, was reined up in front of a little station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. His rider—a tall, broad-shouldered, full-bearded man—was dressed in clothing which seems to have been chosen by the ranchmen of the country of which we write, as a badge distinctive of their calling—a red shirt, wide-brimmed hat, corduroy trousers and heavy top boots.

He was armed and equipped as the law of the plains directs—a heavy Winchester rifle being slung at his back, and a brace of navy revolvers buckled about his waist.