Front matter
Reading edition
AS EL REY ROSE ON HIS HIND FEET WHIRLING, THAT UNWAVERING MUZZLE WHIRLED ALSO TO KEEP IN LINE
THARON OF LOST VALLEY
BY
VINGIE E. ROE
Author of “The Maid of the Whispering Hills,” “The Heart of Night Wind,” etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1919
Copyright, 1919 By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Gun Man’s Heritage 1
II. The Horses of the Finger Marks 29
III. The Man in Uniform 52
IV. Unbroken Bread 76
V. The Working of the Law 102
VI. El Rey and Bolt 128
VII. The Shot in the Cañons 157
VIII. White Ellen 187
IX. Signal Fires in the Valley 214
X. The Untrue Firing Pin 247
XI. Finger Mark and Ironwood at Last 277
ILLUSTRATIONS
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As El Rey rose on his hind feet whirling, that unwavering muzzle whirled also to keep in line Frontispiece
Near them sat a rider on a buckskin horse 38
She talked with Conford who rode beside her and now and then she smiled 104
In fact Courtrey, burning with the new desire that was beginning to obsess him, was working out a new design 131