Front matter
Reading edition
Author of “The Treasure of Hidden Valley,” “Buell Hampton,” “The Builders,” etc.
Illustrated by A. Hutchins
Boston: The Chappie Publishing Company, Ltd.
1917
TO MY WIFE
BONNIE O’NEAL EMERSON
Our enchanting years of pleasure, dear, are speeding all too fast,
As our ever-fleeting joys become blest mem’ries of the past.
Heaven’s blessings, glad and golden, strew with bliss the paths of life
When a sweetheart, fond and cheery,
Has her “hubby” for her dearie,
And her “hubby” has a sweetheart for his wife.
—The Author.
January 18, 1917.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—Guadalupe
CHAPTER II—Charmed Lives
CHAPTER III—Feminine Attractions
CHAPTER IV—Back to the Soil
CHAPTER V—At La Siesta
CHAPTER VI—The Quarrel
CHAPTER VII—Old Bandit Days
CHAPTER VIII—A Letter from San Quentin
CHAPTER IX—Tia Teresa
CHAPTER X—The Home of the Recluse
CHAPTER XI—A Rejected Suitor
CHAPTER XII—The Sped Bullet
CHAPTER XIII—Accused
CHAPTER XIV—Entanglements
CHAPTER XV—Behind the Bars
CHAPTER XVI—Pierre Luzon Returns
CHAPTER XVII—The Bitter Bit
CHAPTER XVIII—Elusive Riches
CHAPTER XIX—The Jail Delivery
CHAPTER XX—In the Cavern
CHAPTER XXI—A Debt of Honor
CHAPTER XXII—Underqround Wonders
CHAPTER XXIII—The Unexpected Visitor
CHAPTER XXIV—In a Tight Corner
CHAPTER XXV—Love and Revenge
CHAPTER XXVI—A Date is Fixed
CHAPTER XXVII—Among the Old Oaks
CHAPTER XXVIII—The Prize Winner
CHAPTER XXIX—-The Rendezvous
CHAPTER XXX—Don Manuel Appears
CHAPTER XXXI—Shadows of the Past
CHAPTER XXXII—Forebodings
CHAPTER XXXIII—Old Friends
CHAPTER XXXIV—Heart Searchings
CHAPTER XXXV—At Comanche Point
CHAPTER XXXVI—-Outwitted
CHAPTER XXXVII—The Dawn of Comprehension
CHAPTER XXXVIII—Exit Leach Sharkey
CHAPTER XXXIX—The Fight on the Cliff
CHAPTER XL—Revelation
CHAPTER XLI—Beneath the Precipice
CHAPTER XLII—Wedding Bells