Front matter

Transcriber’s note: The titles given in the Table of Contents for Chapters VII and VIII differ from the chapter titles used in the text.

They rode needlessly close together and swung their clasped hands like happy children.

THE FREE RANGE

BY

ELWELL LAWRENCE

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

DOUGLAS DUER

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1913 BY

W. J. WATT & COMPANY

Published June

To MATHEW WHITE Jr.,

Editor, author, critic, friend.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Flinging The Gauntlet 9

II A Late Arrival 18

III An Unsettled Score 31

IV The Six Pistol Shots 39

V Strategy and a Surprise 50

VI Ugly Company 64

VII You Have Forgotten The Mask 74

VIII Fiendish Revenge 85

IX The Man in The Mask 98

X War Without Quarter 114

XI Made Prisoner 124

XII Juliet Asserts Herself 136

XIII The Heathen Chinee 149

XIV Sentenced 161

XV Cowland Topsy-Turvy 176

XVI A Message By a Strange Hand 190

XVII A Battle in The Dark 203

XVIII The Immortal Ten 217

XIX An Indian Coulee 235

XX Somebody New Turns Up 245

XXI Julie Investigates 253

XXII The Use of Photography 265

XXIII The Crossing 279

XXIV The Story of Lester 289

XXV The Threads Meet 301

THE FREE RANGE