The Sheriff's Son
When Meldrum came in answer to her summons, he met the shock of his life (page 179)
The Sheriff's Son
By
William MacLeod Raine
With Illustrations by
Harold Cue
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1917 AND 1918, BY FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1918
Books by William MacLeod Raine
PUBLISHED BY
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
THE SHERIFF'S SON. Illustrated.
THE YUKON TRAIL. Illustrated.
STEVE YEAGER. Illustrated.
TO
ROBERT H. DAVIS
WHO WITH HIS USUAL GENEROSITY TO WRITERS
MADE THE AUTHOR A PRESENT
OF THE GERM IDEA
OF THIS PLOT
Contents
Foreword 1 I. Dingwell Gives Three Cheers 18 II. Dave Caches a Gunnysack 30 III. The Old-Timer Sits into a Big Game 44 IV. Royal Beaudry Hears a Call 57 V. The Hill Girl 74 VI. "Cherokee Street" 85 VII. Jess Tighe Spins a Web 98 VIII. Beulah Asks Questions 108 IX. The Man on the Bed 120 X. Dave Takes a Ride 136 XI. Tighe Weaves his Web Tighter 145 XII. Stark Fear 160 XIII. Beulah Interferes 171 XIV. Personally Escorted 183 XV. The Bad Man 193 XVI. Roy is Invited to Take a Drink 202 XVII. Roy Improves the Shining Hours 218 XVIII. Rutherford Answers Questions 225 XIX. Beaudry Blows a Smoke Wreath 234 XX. At the Lazy Double D 246 XXI. Roy Rides his Paint Hoss 255 XXII. Miss Rutherford Speaks her Mind 268 XXIII. In the Pit 279 XXIV. The Bad Man Decides not to Shoot 291 XXV. Two and a Camp-Fire 303 XXVI. The Sins of the Fathers 317 XXVII. The Quicksands 324 XXVIII. Pat Ryan Evens an Old Score 334 XXIX. A New Leaf 341
Illustrations
When Meldrum came in answer to her summons, he met the shock of his life … Frontispiece The quirt, wrong end to, danced up and down clutched in his flying fist 32 "Then sit here, damn ye!" 70 With a gesture wholly savage and feminine her firm arms crept about his neck and fastened there 314
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