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"Don't think that makes any difference. I shall marry him just the same." Frontispiece.—The Trail of the Axe.

The Trail of the Axe

A Story of the Red Sand Valley

BY RIDGWELL CULLUM

Author of "The Watchers of the Plains," "The Sheriff of Dyke Hole", etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors

By CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York

Copyright, 1910, by George W. Jacobs & Company

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. Dave

II. A Picnic in the Red Sand Valley

III. Affairs in Malkern

IV. Dick Mansell's News

V. Jim Truscott Returns

VI. Parson Tom Interferes

VII. The Work at the Mills

VIII. At the Church Bazaar

IX. In Dave's Office

X. An Auspicious Meeting

XI. The Summer Rains

XII. The Old Mills

XIII. Betty Decides

XIV. The Mills

XV. Betty Takes Cover

XVI. Disaster at the Mill

XVII. The Last of the Sawyer

XVIII. Face To Face

XIX. In the Mountains

XX. The Church Militant

XXI. An Adventure in the Fog

XXII. Terror in the Mountains

XXIII. The Red Tide of Anarchy

XXIV. In the Dead of Night

XXV. Mason's Prisoner

XXVI. To the Lumber Camp

XXVII. At Bay

XXVIII. Dave—the Man

XXIX. The End of the Strike

XXX. In the Dugout

XXXI. At Midnight

XXXII. Two Men—and a Woman