Copyright, 1928, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Inc.
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The X Bar X Boys at Nugget Camp

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I][A Dangerous Cast][1]
[II][Out of the Depths][11]
[III][Mysterious Riders][19]
[IV][The Old Miner][28]
[V][Belle Ada’s Nerve][37]
[VI][Stolen Nuggets][45]
[VII][The Gold Rush][54]
[VIII][Pop Lays Down the Law][63]
[IX][Roy Makes a Statement][71]
[X][Silent Packs a Gun][80]
[XI][The Fight][89]
[XII][A Crack at Fortune][97]
[XIII][Off to Nugget Camp][104]
[XIV][Some Shooting][111]
[XV][Horsemen in the Storm][118]
[XVI][His Night to Howl] [127]
[XVII][The Lucky Shot][136]
[XVIII][Discovery][143]
[XIX][The Stranger][154]
[XX][Buncoed][164]
[XXI][Allen’s Gun][173]
[XXII][On the Trail][181]
[XXIII][Greyhound][190]
[XXIV][Ready to Quit][205]
[XXV][One Eleven Comes Through][211]

THE X BAR X BOYS AT NUGGET CAMP

CHAPTER I
A Dangerous Cast

By the time Roy Manley shortened the stirrup that had loosened and slipped down two holes, his brother Teddy was nearly out of sight behind the hunch-backed rise of ground. Roy heard a faint yell as pony and boy disappeared completely.

“Got lightning grease on his heels,” he grumbled, struggling with the stirrup. “Belle, why don’t you take Nell in out of this sun? You and Curly get one on each side of her, and cart her along.”

“Cart me along!” Nell Willis responded indignantly. “Think I’m a bag of potatoes?”

Belle Ada, the girl Roy Manley had addressed, laughed merrily. She was Roy’s sister, a dark-haired, dark-eyed daughter of the plains, thirteen years old, with a gift for practical jokes that was often extremely disconcerting.