ILLUSTRATIONS

“There’s a great big God––just such a God as you and I have knelt to when we were bits of kiddies.”[Frontispiece]
He sat glaring at the table, the smoke of his pipe clouding the still air of the neat kitchen.[156]
Also he was gripping a heavy revolver in his hand.[288]
“We’ve just come over to say that we, too, are going to hit the trail.”[410]

7

THE ONE-WAY TRAIL

CHAPTER I

A GENTLEMAN RANKER

Dan McLagan shifted his cigar, and his face lit with a grin of satisfaction.

“Seventy-five per cent, of calves,” he murmured, glancing out at the sunlit yards. “Say, it’s been an elegant round-up.” Then his enthusiasm rose and found expression. “It’s the finest, luckiest ranch in Montana––in the country. Guess I’d be within my rights if I said ‘in the world.’ I can’t say more.”