CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. DIRTY WORK AT THE BORDER
CHAPTER II. THAT NIGHT—THE APARTMENTS OF CLIFFORD ARMYTAGE
CHAPTER III. WESTERN STUFF
CHAPTER IV. THE WATCHER AT THE GATE
CHAPTER V. A BREACH IN THE CITY WALLS
CHAPTER VI. UNDER THE GLASS TOPS
CHAPTER VII. "NOTHING TO-DAY, DEAR!”
CHAPTER VIII. CLIFFORD ARMYTAGE, THE OUTLAW
CHAPTER IX. MORE WAYS THAN ONE
CHAPTER X. OF SHATTERED ILLUSIONS
CHAPTER XI. THE MONTAGUE GIRL INTERVENES
CHAPTER XII. ALIAS HAROLD PARMALEE
CHAPTER XIII. GENIUS COMES INTO ITS OWN
CHAPTER XIV. OUT THERE WHERE MEN ARE MEN
CHAPTER XV. A NEW TRAIL
CHAPTER XVI. OF SARAH NEVADA MONTAGUE
CHAPTER XVII. MISS MONTAGUE USES HER OWN FACE
CHAPTER XVIII. "FIVE REELS-500 LAUGHS”
CHAPTER XIX. THE TRAGIC COMEDIAN
CHAPTER XX. ONWARD AND UPWARD
At the very beginning of the tale there comes a moment of puzzled hesitation. One way of approach is set beside another for choice, and a third contrived for better choice. Still the puzzle persists, all because the one precisely right way might seem—shall we say intense, high keyed, clamorous? Yet if one way is the only right way, why pause? Courage! Slightly dazed, though certain, let us be on, into the shrill thick of it. So, then—
Out there in the great open spaces where men are men, a clash of primitive hearts and the coming of young love into its own! Well had it been for Estelle St. Clair if she had not wandered from the Fordyce ranch. A moment’s delay in the arrival of Buck Benson, a second of fear in that brave heart, and hers would have been a fate worse than death.
Had she not been warned of Snake le Vasquez, the outlaw—his base threat to win her by fair means or foul? Had not Buck Benson himself, that strong, silent man of the open, begged her to beware of the half-breed? Perhaps she had resented the hint of mastery in Benson’s cool, quiet tones as he said, “Miss St. Clair, ma’am, I beg you not to endanger your welfare by permitting the advances of this viper. He bodes no good