The Rider of the Mohave

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To those who, having paid the penalty for their misdeeds, seek to regain their places in the ranks of the law-abiding, this book is sympathetically dedicated

CONTENTS
Prologue[He Rides by Night]
I[Mania and Dreams]
II[The Man Hunter]
III[In Which Wills Collide]
IV[Lemuel Yields]
V[The Wherewithal]
VI[Aftermath]
VII[Startling Predicaments]
VIII[Lavender and Old Lace]
IX[Evidence to Convict]
X[A Disclosure]
XI[Outwitted]
XII[Reputations at Stake]
XIII[Sinister Forebodings]
XIV[An Episode in the Hills]
XV[The Potent Influence]
XVI[The Hand of Quintell]
XVII[One Silent Night]
XVIII[Skulking Shadows]
XIX[An Enemy in the Ranks]
XX[Geerusalem Stirs]
XXI[The Law and the Lawless]
XXII[A Showdown]
XXIII[The Uprising]
XXIV[Warburton Gets Square]

THE RIDER OF THE MOHAVE
PROLOGUE—HE RIDES BY NIGHT

It was three in the morning, but Geerusalem had not yet closed its eyes. There was too much undug gold in the hills; it was too handy—too easy come, easy go; the days, too short; the pleasures, too wanton, too alluring. The camp of Geerusalem promenaded, gambled, danced, fought, debauched the night away, waiting for to-morrow. Far out on desolate Soapweed Plains, rose the intermittent, yelping wail-bark of a coyote.