CHAPTER 1
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A Frontier Duel
“HEY, TOM! there’s a big hubbub amongst the Injuns!” exclaimed Ben Gordon to his twin brother, as he rushed into an unpainted, frame shanty in the frontier hamlet of Chicago. The two schoolboys had arrived from the east only the day before, keenly eager for a summer of western adventure.
“You don’t say, Ben! What goes on?”
“Two young braves, both sons of chiefs, are dead set on fighting a duel!”
Tom looked up soberly from the breakfast table.
“Whew!” he said, “somebody may get hurt.”
“Righto, but they’re mighty bitter, I hear. Have sworn vengeance.”