The Rambler Club on the Texas border

by W. Crispin Sheppard

Other books telling of the adventures of the club are:

“The Rambler Club Afloat,” “The Rambler Club’s Winter Camp,” “The Rambler Club in the Mountains,” “The Rambler Club on Circle T Ranch,” “The Rambler Club Among the Lumberjacks,” “The Rambler Club’s Gold Mine,” “The Rambler Club’s Aeroplane,” “The Rambler Club’s Houseboat,” “The Rambler Club’s Motor Car,” “The Rambler Club’s Ball Nine,” “The Rambler Club’s Football Team,” “The Rambler Club With the Northwest Mounted,” “The Rambler Club’s Motor Yacht.”

Contents

I.	Cranny	[ 9]
II.	Machine Guns	[ 21]
III.	The Rangers	[ 33]
IV.	The Invaders	[ 46]
V.	New Friends	[ 53]
VI.	In the Saddle	[ 65]
VII.	Scouting	[ 77]
VIII.	In Mexico	[ 89]
IX.	A Lone Horseman	[ 99]
X.	Moving Pictures	[ 108]
XI.	Soldiers	[ 117]
XII.	Rifle Shots	[ 129]
XIII.	The Storm Breaks	[ 134]
XIV.	The Stampede	[ 148]
XV.	The Fight	[ 154]
XVI.	A Wild Race	[ 167]
XVII.	A Night in the Open	[ 174]
XVIII.	On the Track of “Rustlers”	[ 186]
XIX.	Captured by Cowboys	[ 204]
XX.	Under Fire	[ 223]
XXI.	The Fusillade	[ 238]
XXII.	Kidnapping Jimmy	[ 257]
XXIII.	Safe Again in Texas	[ 273]
XXIV.	Jimmy Gets Back	[ 289]
XXV.	Capturing the “Rustlers”	[ 307]
XXVI.	Good-Bye to the Rangers	[ 315]

Illustrations

PAGE
The Crowd Watched the Policemen	[ Frontispiece]
“Into the Saddle, Boys!”	[ 73]
Once More He Turned	[ 149]
“Own Up—Now!”	[ 206]
Silently the Lads Observed Them	[ 261]

The Rambler Club on the
Texas Border

CHAPTER I
CRANNY

“Honestly, fellows, I can hardly keep from shouting hip, hip, hurrah—rah, rah, rah, all the time. Just think, here we are, out for adventure. Yes, I’ve got to let it go. Rah, rah, rah for the Ramblers, and ditto for the Texas Rangers!”

It was a big, husky-looking chap who uttered this rapid flow of words, and the shout which ended his sentence rang through the spacious square room of the ranch-house so lustily that his hearers, a crowd of six boys and two men, broke into a storm of laughter.