Category: Adventure

Treve

The rickety and rackety train was droning along over the desert miles--miles split and sprinkled by cheerless semi-arid foothills. At dusk it had shrieked and groaned its way over a divide and slid clatteringly down the far side amid a screech of brakes.

Chapters

3. CHAPTER III: MAROONED!

All through the parchingly dry summer the sheep of the Dos Hermanos ranch had pastured on the upper slopes of the Peaks; far above the rainless and baking valley where the verdu...

2. CHAPTER II: THIRST!

Treve lay drowsing, in the early morning sunshine, in front of the Dos Hermanos ranch house. The big young collie sprawled lazily on his left side; his classic head outlined sha...

4. CHAPTER IV: THE KILLER

The rainy season was coming to an end--the season as nastily disagreeable as it was needful. Spring was at hand. And the folk on the Dos Hermanos ranch rejoiced almost as much a...

1. CHAPTER I: THE COMING OF TREVE

The rickety and rackety train was droning along over the desert miles--miles split and sprinkled by cheerless semi-arid foothills. At dusk it had shrieked and groaned its way ov...

7. CHAPTER VII: THEFT AND UNTHEFT

“That cat of yours,” commented Royce Mack,--as he paused beside the adobe shelf on his way into the kitchen of the Dos Hermanos ranch house, and addressed the slant-eyed Chang,...

6. CHAPTER VI: DESERTED

The man did not know how long he crouched there in growing mental torment, on the hard cell bench. It seemed to him a handful of centuries in duration. Actually, it was somethin...

12. CHAPTER XII: AFTERWORD

I have drawn upon one of our Sunnybank collies for the name and the aspect and certain traits of this book’s hero. The real Treve was my chum, and one of the strangest and most...

11. CHAPTER XI: THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

Treve lay on the porch at the Dos Hermanos ranch house; his classic head between his little white forepaws; his mighty gold-and-white body like a couchant lion’s. A casual passe...

5. CHAPTER V: A SECRET ADVENTURE

He indicated Treve, lounging on the puncheon floor in front of the group. Treve had awakened with some abruptness from a snooze and was scratching busily; driving his right hind...

9. CHAPTER IX: HIS MATE

When Treve saved Chris Hibben from a peculiarly hideous death under the hoofs of Chris’s own Triple Bar steers, he did more to patch up a truce between the Dos Hermanos and the...

10. CHAPTER X: THE RUSTLERS

Three miles to eastward of the Dos Hermanos ranch runs the Black Angel Trail. Far to northward it has its beginning. It cuts the state from top to bottom, like a jaggèd swordstr...

8. CHAPTER VIII: IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY

Joel Fenno was wading almost thigh-deep in a billowing and tossing grayish sea. Here and there, near him, arose the upper two-thirds of other men--his young partner, Royce Mack;...