Published October, 1904.

"A HORSEMAN FLED BEFORE THEM"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [A Stranger in a Strange Land ]1
II. [America's Unfriendly Welcome ]10
III. [Rob to the Rescue ]18
IV. [A Triumph for Jo's Enemies ]26
V. [Threatened Violence ]35
VI. [The Sheriff Takes Prompt Measures ]44
VII. [The Sentence of the Court ]52
VIII. [Jo's Enemies Prepare a Trap ]61
IX. [Jo Finds that He is Some One Else ]70
X. [What Happened on the Way to China ]79
XI. [Accept a Kindness and Pass It Along ]88
XII. [From the Golden Gate to the Pearl River ]97
XIII. [In the World's Most Marvellous City ]106
XIV. [A Turn of Fortune's Tide ]116
XV. [In the Heart of Unknown China ]125
XVI. ["Fists of Righteous Harmony" ]134
XVII.[ Leaping into Unknown Blackness ]143
XVIII. [A Supper of Sacred Eels ]151
XIX. [An Exhibition of the Rain-God's Anger ]160
XX. [Rob Makes a Startling Discovery ]169
XXI. [The Refugees of Cheng-Ting-Fu ]178
XXII. [A Charge and a Race for Life ]187
XXIII. [Stealing a Locomotive ]196
XXIV. [The Timely Explosion of a Boiler ]204
XXV. [In China's Capital City ]213
XXVI. [War Clouds ]222
XXVII. [China Defies the World ]231
XXVIII. [Fighting Sixty Feet Above Ground ]241
XXIX. [Jo Heaps Coals of Fire ]250
XXX. [The Capture of Pekin ]260

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