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[Frontispiece: Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.]
THE SHORT CUT
BY
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
CONTENTS
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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