Rimrock Jones

The big day came for which Rimrock had waited, the day when he could strike his first blow. In his room at the Waldorf he had installed special telephone connections, with a cle...

The Mint was Gunsight's only gambling house. It had a bar, of course, and a Mexican string band that played from eight o'clock on; besides a roulette wheel, a crap table, two fa...

It had not taken long, after his triumphant homecoming, for Rimrock to wreck his own happiness. That old rift between them, regarding the law, had been opened the very first day...

All the next day, and the next, Mary watched the door and on the morning of the third Rimrock came. From motives of prudence the badly shaken Jepson had suggested that she see h...

From the highest pinnacle of success to the black depths of despair is a long way to drop in one hour and if Rimrock Jones went the way of all flesh it is only another argument...

It was as dazzling to Rimrock as a burst of sunshine to a man just come up from a mine--that look in Mary Fortune's eyes. He went out of her office like a man in a dream and wan...

Rimrock Jones' return to New York was as dramatic and spectacular as his first visit had been pretentious and prodigal. With two thousand dollars and a big black hat he had pass...

The winter came on with its rains and soft verdure and desert shrubs bursting with bloom and, for a man who professed to know just exactly where he was at, Rimrock Jones was sin...

When Rimrock had caught the first train for New York he had thought it was to seek out Mary Fortune--to kneel at her feet and tell her humbly that he knew he had done her a wron...

The morning after found Rimrock without regrets and, for once, without a head. He had subtly judged, from something she had said, that Mary did not like whiskey breaths, nor str...

As Mrs. Hardesty guessed, Rimrock was hurrying away in order to follow Mary Fortune; and as Rimrock guessed, she had invited him in to keep him from doing just that. She failed,...

The next thirty days--before the stockholders' meeting--were spent by Rimrock in trying to explain. In spite of her suggestion that he was not good at that art he insisted upon...

It was part of the violent nature of Rimrock that his wrath fell upon both the just and the unjust. Mary Fortune had worsted him in their passage at arms and left him bruised fr...

It was very informal, to say the least, for Mary Fortune to invite him to stay. To be sure, she knew him--he was the man with the gun, the man of whom McBain was afraid--but tha...

It is an engineer's duty, when he is sent out to examine a mine, to make a report on the property, regardless. The fact that the owner is a liar and a thief does not necessarily...

For the few brief weeks before the great trial the office was swarming with men. There were high-priced lawyers and geologists of renown and experts on every phase of the suit,...

The second annual meeting of the Tecolote stockholders found Whitney H. Stoddard in the chair. Henry Rimrock Jones was too busy on the stock market to permit of his getting away...

The white heat of midsummer settled down on the desert and the rattlesnakes and Gila monsters holed up. As in the frozen East they hibernated in winter to escape the grip of the...

Rimrock Jones left town with four burro-loads of powder, some provisions and a cargo of tools. He paid cash for his purchases and answered no question beyond saying that he knew...

It was a source of real regret to Mary Fortune that she could not keep on hating Rimrock Jones. In the long, weary months that she had been away from him she had almost dismisse...

The peace of midday lay upon Gunsight, broken only by the distant _chang, chang_ of bells as a ten-mule ore-team came toiling in from the mines. In the cool depths of the umbrel...

"Well, well," remarked Rimrock after he had started his machine and the desert was gliding smoothly by, "so that's why they call you Miss Fortune, eh? Losing all your money on t...

Rimrock came back to Gunsight in charge of a deputy sheriff and with the angry glow still in his eyes. The inquest was over and he was held for murder, but he refused to retain...

A crafty-eyed lawyer on an East-side street told Rimrock all he needed to know--a summons in equity could not be served outside the bounds of the state. And so, a year after his...

In the big moments of life when we have triumphed over difficulties and quaffed the heady wine of success there is always something--or the lack of something--to bring us back t...

When a man's honor is questioned--his honor as a fighting man--it is the dictum of centuries of chivalry that he shall not seek to avoid the combat. A great fortune was at stake...

What a fool he was and how much the tiger lady hated him Rimrock was already in a position to judge, but the inner meaning of "Kiss your money good-bye!" was still to be disclos...

"Now, let's talk reason," said Rimrock at last as he put away her hands. "Let's be reasonable--I don't know where I'm at. Say, where have I been and what have I been up to? Am I...

Mary Fortune was pacing up and down her room in something very like a rage. Her trunk, half-packed, stood against the wall and her pictures lay face down on the bed, and she hov...