BY OLL COOMES.
NEW YORK:
BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS,
No. 98 WILLIAM STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
FRANK STARR & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
RAINBOLT, THE RANGER;
OR,
THE AERIAL DEMON OF THE MOUNTAIN.
CHAPTER I.
THE VILLAINS’ PLOT.
In fifteen minutes the emigrant train on the Union Pacific railroad was to leave the depot at Omaha, going west.
Two men, evidently waiting for the train, might have been seen pacing to and fro upon the station platform in close conversation.
The eldest of the two was apparently forty years of age. He was of medium hight and build, with steel-gray eyes, sharp and brilliant. His hair, which was cut closely to a well-shaped head, was of a dark brown, as was also his heavy mustache and whiskers. He was dressed in light gray clothes, after the prevailing fashion of the day (1869).