I	Under the Sword of Damocles	[9]
II	In Days of Innocence	[24]
III	Through Mists of the Sea	[31]
IV	Graves Gave up Their Dead	[41]
V	Fairest Flower of the Cordilleras	[50]
VI	A Humiliating Incident	[56]
VII	In the Throes of Revolution	[64]
VIII	Viva Generalissimo Pierola	[72]
IX	Amid the Din of Battle	[80]
X	We Meet Again, Felicita	[90]
XI	The Masque Ball at Tiravaya	[98]
XII	Cowardly Act of a Villain	[107]
XIII	Murderous Plan of the Insurgents	[115]
XIV	For the Sake of Humanity	[125]
XV	In Desperate Struggle for Life	[135]
XVI	The Screaming Winds of Night	[143]
XVII	The Barbarian Meets His Ingomar	[151]
XVIII	On Sunny Seas Bound North	[159]
XIX	Death Ships of the Sea	[167]
XX	A Daughter of the Cherokees	[176]
XXI	Carson’s Blank Pages in Life	[185]
XXII	A Voice from Centuries Past	[195]
XXIII	The Two Old Black Crows	[205]
XXIV	The Reckless Hand of Fate	[214]
XXV	Cords of Love Are Strong	[223]
XXVI	When the Death Gloom Gathers	[231]
XXVII	A Night of Tragedies	[240]
XXVIII	From out the Shadowy Past	[249]

Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew

I.

UNDER THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES.

We built our cabin high on the slopes of the Sangre de Christo range, overlooking the broad, level San Luis Valley, in Colorado. At the rear of the cabin rose a towering cliff or rather a huge slab of rock standing edgewise more than two hundred feet high, apparently the upheaval of some mighty convulsion of nature in ages gone. Near the base of this cliff flowed a clear crystal spring.

Some hundred yards west of the cabin was the mouth of a tunnel into which we had drifted with pick, shovel and giant powder, a distance of 300 feet in five months of hard toil. A trail led from the 10 tunnel to the cabin along the mountain side, which was thickly studded with tall pines. Another trail led down the mountain slopes in a winding way to the valley, almost a mile below. Above, reaching far into the blue dome of the sky, rose the peaks of the snow-capped Sangre de Christo, glistening in the morning sunlight, which threw gaunt, fantastic shadows in cañon and deep ravine.