Front matter

“I can stand here till I get tired,” retorted Lynch.

Shoe-Bar Stratton

By JOSEPH B. AMES

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with The Century Company

Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1922, by

The Century Co.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

To

BILL McBRIDE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Back from the Dead 3

II Crooked Work 13

III Mistress Mary Quite Contrary 24

IV The Branding-Iron 31

V Tex Lynch 41

VI The Blood-Stained Saddle 51

VII Rustlers 60

VIII The Hoodoo Outfit 70

IX Revelations 81

X Buck Finds Out Something 91

XI Danger 106

XII Thwarted 119

XIII Counterplot 127

XIV The Lady From the Past 136

XV “Blackleg” 145

XVI The Unexpected 153

XVII The Primeval Instinct 166

XVIII A Change of Base 176

XIX The Mysterious Motor-Car 186

XX Catastrophe 197

XXI What Mary Thorne Found 208

XXII Nerve 219

XXIII Where the Wheel Tracks Led 230

XXIV The Secret of North Pasture 239

XXV The Trap 248

XXVI Sheriff Hardenberg Intervenes 256

XXVII An Hour Too Late 268

XXVIII Forebodings 276

XXIX Creeping Shadows 284

XXX Lynch Scores 291

XXXI Gone 301

XXXII Buck Rides 309

XXXIII Carried Away 319

XXXIV The Fight on the Ledge 332

XXXV The Dead Heart 339

XXXVI Two Trails Converge 345

SHOE-BAR STRATTON