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"He's taken our retainer!" snapped the vice-president
THE HONORABLE
SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH
BY
FRANCIS LYNDE
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK : : : : : 1913
Copyright, 1913, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1913
TO MR. GEORGE ADY
My Regius Professor in the School of Western Railroading, and himself a keen observer, in situ, of the conditions which I have herein sought to portray, this book is most affectionately inscribed.
The Author.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I, Because Patricia Said "No" CHAPTER II, The Boss CHAPTER III, The Highbinders CHAPTER IV, A False Gallop of Memories CHAPTER V, At Wartrace Hall CHAPTER VI, On the Wing of Occasions CHAPTER VII, A Battle Royal CHAPTER VIII, The Queen's Gambit CHAPTER IX, The Rank and File CHAPTER X, In the Herbarium CHAPTER XI, The Great Game CHAPTER XII, A Well-Spring in the Desert CHAPTER XIII, The Liegeman CHAPTER XIV, Barriers Invisible CHAPTER XV, Sword-Play CHAPTER XVI, The Safe-Blower CHAPTER XVII, On the Knees of the High Gods CHAPTER XVIII, The Chasm CHAPTER XIX, A Cog in the Wheel CHAPTER XX, A Stone for Bread CHAPTER XXI, The Under-Dog CHAPTER XXII, The Iconoclast CHAPTER XXIII, A Cry in the Night CHAPTER XXIV, Field Headquarters CHAPTER XXV, Blood and Iron CHAPTER XXVI, Apples of Gold CHAPTER XXVII, In Which Patricia Drives CHAPTER XXVIII, The Gossiping Wires CHAPTER XXIX, At Shonoho Inn CHAPTER XXX, The Reckoning CHAPTER XXXI, À la Bonne Heure