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Contents

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I The Time and the Place 1
II The Girl 17
III Goosie and Others 27
IV A Texas Man 42
V Flagged 57
VI One Thing and Another 69
VII A Lowly Man 85
VIII Fanning Bullets 100
IX More Than Moral Support 113
X Tragedy at the Square 124
XI News From the Trail 135
XII Windy Moore's Watch 142
XIII The Essential Evidence 153
XIV An Old Axiom Explodes 164
XV A Prairie Mansion 180
XVI Missing Cattle 193
XVII A Yard of Backbone 203
XVIII A Prop of the Law 217
XIX A Bill of Sale 228
XX The Cook's Butcher Knife 239
XXI Windy Moore Arms 252
XXII Pap Cowgill Has a Word 265
XXIII When a Brave Man Dreams 278
XXIV Range and Railroad Meet 287
XXV Myron Assumes the Pen 302
XXVI Genius Gets a Job 314