Over the Border: A Novel

by Herman Whitaker

HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK
Established 1817

Over The Border
Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers

Printed in the United States of America
Published May, 1917

TO
Jack London
IN MEMORY OF OLD FRIENDSHIP

GORDON SEIZED ILARIAN WITH HIS NAKED HANDS

Contents

• [I: THE THREE BAD MEN OF LAS BOCAS]
• [II: OVER THE BORDER]
• [III: EVEN A RUSTLER HAS HIS TROUBLES]
• [IV: THE TRAIL OF THE COLORADOS]
• [V: THE “HACIENDA OF THE TREES”]
• [VI: BULL TURNS NURSE]
• [VII: THE RUSTLERS ARE ADOPTED]
• [VIII: “THE LEOPARD’S SPOTS”]
• [IX: A PARTY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES]
• [X: WANTED—A HUSBAND]
• [XI: GORDON’S DÉBUT]
• [XII: THE RECRUIT IS TRIED OUT—IN SEVERAL WAYS]
• [XIII: AMERICAN RUSTLERS VS. MEXICAN RAIDERS]
• [XIV: NEMESIS DOGS THE THREE—AND IS “DOGGED,” IN TURN, BY LEE]
• [XV: BULL AND THE WIDOW CONSPIRE]
• [XVI: ONE MAN CAN TAKE A HORSE TO WATER, BUT—]
• [XVII: —BUT TWENTY CANNOT MAKE HIM DRINK]
• [XVIII: THE “WIND” BLOWS CONTRARY]
• [XIX: A KISS—ITS CONSEQUENCES]
• [XX: SLIVER IS DULY CHASTENED]
• [XXI: THE WIDOW TO THE RESCUE]
• [XXII: LEE, TOO, IS CONFESSED]
• [XXIII: IN WHICH THE WIDOW GOES AND SLIVER COMES]
• [XXIV: UNDERSTANDING]
• [XXV: LOVE AND BUSINESS]
• [XXVI: A SETTLEMENT]
• [XXVII: AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE]
• [XXVIII: A “REQUISITION”]
• [XXIX: TEMPTATION]
• [XXX: THE OTHER HALF OF THE TRUTH]
• [XXXI: “BRAINS WIN”]
• [XXXII: TRAVAIL]
• [XXXIII: THE DEATH IN THE NIGHT]
• [XXXIV: ---------------------?]
• [XXXV: WHY?]
• [XXXVI: “IN THE MIDST OF LIFE—”]
• [XXXVII: THE THREE—AGAIN]
• [XXXVIII: FIRE]
• [XXXIX: “VENGEANCE IS MINE”]
• [XL: SLIVER “MAKES GOOD”]
• [XLI: JAKE BETTERS THE “EXCHANGE”]
• [XLII: BULL DREAMS A DREAM!]
• [XLIII: THE LAST OF THE THREE BAD MEN]

[I: THE THREE BAD MEN OF LAS BOCAS]

The Three had chosen their lair wisely.