Category: Adventure
Old Dave Hinch awoke with the bitter trickle of smoke in his nose; and his first idea was that he must have fallen asleep with his pipe in his mouth, lost his grip on it and set fire to his beard. That appendage, and the whiskers and mustache which mingled with it, were dear t...
Vane came up with her within a mile of the jump-off—and this was closer than he had hoped for. She neither welcomed nor reproved him, but only remarked in a noncommittal voice t...
4. CHAPTER IVJard Hassock and Robert Vane talked horses. Jard now did most of the talking. The glorious pedigree of Willoughby Girl had affected him as the bray of trumpets affects old caval...
5. CHAPTER VVane told Jard Hassock of his meeting with poor Pete Sledge but not a word about their engagement for eleven o’clock that night. He spoke of Pete’s illusion to the effect that h...
6. CHAPTER VIHe breakfasted in the kitchen, but not a word did he say of the night’s activities. He was told that McPhee had already called to say that young Steve Dangler had already been i...
1. CHAPTER IOld Dave Hinch awoke with the bitter trickle of smoke in his nose; and his first idea was that he must have fallen asleep with his pipe in his mouth, lost his grip on it and set...
9. CHAPTER IX“But I don’t understand. And why did they leave me here—with the cord at my wrists so loose that I slipped my hands free? Why didn’t they do me in for keeps, if they feel that w...
8. CHAPTER VIIIThe sun was up when Pete Sledge knocked on the kitchen door of Moosehead House. The door was locked. He knocked with his knuckles, then with a stick of stove-wood. It was Jard w...
11. CHAPTER XIThe luck of the Danglers went wrong all at once. They got what was due them and overdue them suddenly and swiftly, no mistake about that! Old Luke and two others were caught in...
2. CHAPTER II“Mister, you’re a wonder!” exclaimed Jard. “I didn’t get it all last night, we was that busy runnin’ round pertendin’ we was tryin’ to put out the fire, jist to fool old Dave—bu...
10. CHAPTER XThey put a mile and a half between that fire and the next. Vane was no longer weakening. He was strengthening in heart, muscles and spirit gradually but steadily, despite the dr...
3. CHAPTER III“There’s throw-backs in folks jist like in horses,” said the proprietor of Moosehead House, seating himself close to the kitchen stove and waving his guest to a rocking chair. “...
12. CHAPTER XIIA bunch of belated letters arrived next morning for Vane. They had been hung up at the little town on the big river, where the postmaster had mislaid the address for forwarding...