NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT, 1917 AND 1918, BY FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1918

TO
ROBERT H. DAVIS
WHO WITH HIS USUAL GENEROSITY TO WRITERS
MADE THE AUTHOR A PRESENT
OF THE GERM IDEA
OF THIS PLOT

Contents

Chapter
[Foreword]
I. [Dingwell Gives Three Cheers.]
II. [Dave Caches a Gunnysack]
III. [The Old-Timer Sits into a Big Game]
IV. [Royal Beaudry Hears a Call]
V. [The Hill Girl]
VI. ["Cherokee Street"]
VII. [Jess Tighe Spins a Web]
VIII. [Beulah Asks Questions]
IX. [The Man on the Bed]
X. [Dave Takes a Ride]
XI. [Tighe Weaves his Web Tighter]
XII. [Stark Fear]
XIII. [Beulah Interferes]
XIV. [Personally Escorted]
XV. [The Bad Man]
XVI. [Roy is Invited to Take a Drink]
XVII. [Roy Improves the Shining Hours]
XVIII. [Rutherford Answers Questions]
XIX. [Beaudry Blows a Smoke Wreath]
XX. [At the Lazy Double D]
XXI. [Roy Rides his Paint Hoss]
XXII. [Miss Rutherford Speaks her Mind]
XXIII. [In the Pit]
XXIV. [The Bad Man Decides not to Shoot]
XXV. [Two and a Camp-Fire]
XXVI. [The Sins of the Fathers]
XXVII. [The Quicksands]
XXVIII. [Pat Ryan Evens an Old Score]
XXIX. [A New Leaf]

The Sheriff's Son

Foreword

Through the mesquite a horse moved deviously, following the crooked trail of least resistance. A man was in the saddle and in front of him a little boy nodding with sleep. The arm of the rider cradled the youngster against the lurches of the pony's gait.