CONTENTS

I. Dick Stanley[11]
II. Sheep and Cinnamon[32]
III. The Mescalero Valley[51]
IV. Racing the Storm[68]
V. How Dick Brought the News[87]
VI. The Professor's Story[102]
VII. Dick's Diplomacy[116]
VIII. The Start[129]
IX. Antonio Martinez[147]
X. The Padron[165]
XI. The Spanish Trail[179]
XII. The Badger[191]
XIII. The King Philip Mine[203]
XIV. A Change of Plan[221]
XV. Dick's Snap Shot[241]
XVI. The Old Pueblo Head-Gate[259]
XVII. The Bridge[276]
XVIII. The Big Flume[294]
XIX. Pedro's Bold Stroke[313]
XX. The Memorable Twenty-Ninth [333]

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Dick pushed his rifle-barrel through a crevice in the rocks" (Frontispiece)[42]
"It was a splendid chance; nobody could ask for a better target"[57]
"Passing on our way through the town of Mosby"[137]
"Behind him, stood the squat figure of Pedro Sanchez"[213]
"I could not think what he was doing it for"[286]