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SUNSET PASS
OR
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET THROUGH APACHE LAND
AUTHOR OF "THE DESERTER", "A WAR-TIME WOOING", ETC
COPYRIGHTED, 1890 BY JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
NEW YORK JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 150 WORTH ST., COR. MISSION PLACE
CAPT. CHAS. KING
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
SUNSET PASS.
CHAPTER I.
A RASH RESOLVE.
HE DREW LITTLE NELL CLOSE TO HIM.
CHAPTER II.
MANUELITO'S TREACHERY.
MANUELITO WAS SHUFFLING ABOUT THE FIRE APPARENTLY DOING NOTHING.
"WHERE'S MANUELITO?"
CHAPTER III.
ON THE ALERT.
HIS FIRST DUTY SEEMED TO BE TO GET THE PROVISIONS FROM THE WAGON.
"JIM, OLD BOY, WE'VE GOT TO PULL TOGETHER TO-NIGHT."
"MY GOD! THERE'S NOT A LIVING SOUL IN SIGHT."
CHAPTER IV.
ON THE WATCH.
BENDING DOWN HE RAISED HER IN HIS STRONG ARMS.
CHAPTER V.
THE PRISONER.
AWAY HE FLEW AT FULL SPEED.
THE TWO MEN SET TO WORK TO BUILD THEIR BREASTWORK.
CHAPTER VI.
MANUELITO'S FATE.
NELLIE, CLINGING TO HER NURSE, WAS TERRIFIED BY THE SOUNDS.
THE POOR DEVIL WAS NOW SEATED, BOUND AND HELPLESS, ON A ROCK BY THE ROADSIDE.
CHAPTER VII.
PIKE'S STRANGE DREAM.
"THAT'S WHAT JIM TOOK FOR AN APACHE."
ONE VEHEMENT KICK AND CURSE HE GAVE HIM.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE CAPTAIN'S RIDE.
WITH ONE BACKWARD LOOK HE STAGGERED WEARILY ON.
"MY GOD! WHAT CAN HAVE HAPPENED? IT'S CAPTAIN GWYNNE!"
CHAPTER IX.
THE ATTACK.
EVIDENTLY THE ONE WHO WAS SHOT WAS A MAN OF SOME PROMINENCE AMONG THEM—POSSIBLY A CHIEF.
ALL OF A SUDDEN A BLACK SHADOW RUSHED THROUGH THE AIR.
CHAPTER X.
LITTLE NED'S SHOT.
"DOWN WITH THESE STONES, NOW!"
THE BULLET OF THE LITTLE BALLARD HAD TAKEN HIM JUST UNDER THE EYE.
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