Front matter
Reading edition
“IF YOU WANT THE PARSON TO DIE, DON’T LOOK AT ME WHEN HE STEPS IN.”
The Trail To
Yesterday
By Charles Alden Seltzer
Author of
“The Two-Gun Man,”
“The Coming of the Law,”
Etc.
With Three Illustrations
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1913, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Woman on the Trail 11
II. The Dim Trail 40
III. Converging Trails 53
IV. This Picture and That 72
V. Dakota Evens a Score 88
VI. Kindred Spirits 111
VII. Bogged Down 121
VIII. Sheila Fans a Flame 146
IX. Strictly Business 163
X. Duncan Adds Two and Two 196
XI. A Parting and a Visit 215
XII. A Meeting on the River Trail 233
XIII. The Shot in the Back 254
XIV. Langford Lays Off the Mask 275
XV. The Parting on the River Trail 303
XVI. Sheriff Allen Takes a Hand 310
XVII. Doubler Talks 323
XVIII. For Dakota 336
XIX. Some Memories 344
XX. Into the Unknown 359
ILLUSTRATIONS
“If you want the parson to die, don’t look at me when he steps in.” Frontispiece
“Won’t you please get us out of this?” 134
Duncan grasped for his pistol, but the hand holding it was stamped violently into the earth. 161
THE TRAIL TO
YESTERDAY