NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1916

COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

TO
"MOTHER" McGLASHAN
AND
GENERAL C. F. McGLASHAN

CONTENTS

I [THE TRAGEDY]
II [THE SHADOW]
III [SUSPICION]
IV [THE WHITE HUNTRESS]
V [THE HOME COMING OF RED RECKLESS]
VI [THE PROMISE OF LITTLE SAXON]
VII [THE GLADNESS THAT SINGS]
VIII ["BLUFF, AND THE GAMBLER WINS!"]
IX [THE CONTEMPT OF SLEDGE HUME]
X [SHANDON'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY]
XI [WANDA'S DISCOVERY]
XII [THE TALES OF MR. WILLIE DART]
XIII [SLEDGE HUME MAKES A CALL AND LAYS A WAGER]
XIV [IN WANDA'S CAVE]
XV [WILLIE DART PICKS A LOCK]
XVI [AND SOLVES A FASCINATING MYSTERY]
XVII ["WHERE'S THAT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND?"]
XVIII [THE TRUTH]
XIX [SHANDON TAKES HIS STAND]
XX [HUME PLAYS A TRUMP]
XXI [THE SHORT CUT]
XXII [THE FUGITIVE]
XXIII [HELGA STRAWN PLAYS THE GAME]
XXIV [UNDER THE SURFACE]
XXV [RED RECKLESS ON LITTLE SAXON]
XXVI [THE LAUGHTER OF HELGA STRAWN]
XXVII [HUME RIDES THE ONE OPEN TRAIL]
XXVIII ["IT IS HOME!"]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing,
half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "I want just to smoke and watch you and listen while you talk." ]

[ She made herself as comfortable as she could, drew her camera
from its case, and waited a patient quarter of an hour. ]

[ "I call upon you to give yourself up!" he shouted. "Stop, Red,
or I shoot this time!" ]