The Short Cut
by Jackson Gregory
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gregory, Jackson, 1882-1943
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Western stories
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18950
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18950
- Release Date
- July 31, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.[Frontispiece: Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.] — THE SHORT CUT — BY
- 2.JACKSON GREGORY — Author of "Under Handicap," "The Outlaw" — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON — NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1916 — TO "MOTHER" McGLASHAN AND GENERAL C. F. McGLASHAN
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be . . . . . . Frontispiece — "I want just to smoke and watch you and listen while you talk." — She made herself as comfortable as she could, drew her camera from its case, and waited a patient quarter of an hour. — "I call upon you to give yourself up!" he shouted. "Stop, Red, or I shoot this time!" — THE SHORT CUT — CHAPTER I — THE TRAGEDY — CHAPTER II — THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III — SUSPICION — CHAPTER IV — THE WHITE HUNTRESS — CHAPTER V — THE HOME COMING OF RED RECKLESS — CHAPTER VI — THE PROMISE OF LITTLE SAXON — CHAPTER VII — THE GLADNESS THAT SINGS — [Illustration: "I want just to smoke and watch you and listen while you talk."] — CHAPTER VIII — "A GAME OF BLUFF AND THE GAMBLER WINS!" — CHAPTER IX — THE CONTEMPT OF SLEDGE HUME — CHAPTER X — SHANDON'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY — CHAPTER XI — WANDA'S DISCOVERY — [Illustration: She made herself as comfortable as she could, drew her camera from its case, and waited a patient quarter of an hour.] — CHAPTER XII — THE TALES OF MR. WILLIE DART — CHAPTER XIII — SLEDGE HUME MAKES A CALL AND LAYS A WAGER — CHAPTER XIV — IN WANDA'S CAVE — CHAPTER XV — WILLIE DART PICKS A LOCK — CHAPTER XVI — AND SOLVES A FASCINATING MYSTERY — CHAPTER XVII — "WHERE'S THAT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND? WHAT'S THE ANSWER?" — CHAPTER XVIII — THE TRUTH — CHAPTER XIX — SHANDON TAKES HIS STAND — CHAPTER XX — HUME PLAYS A TRUMP — CHAPTER XXI — THE SHORT CUT — CHAPTER XXII — THE FUGITIVE — CHAPTER XXIII — HELGA STRAWN PLAYS THE GAME — CHAPTER XXIV — UNDER THE SURFACE — CHAPTER XXV — RED RECKLESS ON LITTLE SAXON — [Illustration: "I call upon you to give yourself up!" he shouted. "Stop, Red, or I shoot this time!"] — CHAPTER XXVI — THE LAUGHTER OF HELGA STRAWN — CHAPTER XXVII — HUME RIDES THE ONE OPEN TRAIL — CHAPTER XXVIII — "IT IS HOME!"
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