The Stage to Yellow Creek

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Frederick Schiller Faust. The Stage to Yellow Creek

The Stage to Yellow Creek

Table of Contents

I “CACTUS TERRY”

II “KILLERS AHEAD”

III “FLIGHT”

IV “FIRE AND FLOOD”

V “TROUBLE ON HORSEBACK”

VI “CONFERENCE OF WAR”

VII “PRISONERS”

VIII “TREACHERY”

IX “BLUFF”

X “GUN TALK”

XI “CACTUS GOES TO PIECES”

XII “TWO AGAINST MANY”

XIII “DEATH ON THE WAY”

XIV “MEN DIE”

XV “THE GOLD COMES BACK”

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Frederick Schiller Faust

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“Why, certainly,” he said. “I’ll sit as quiet as can be, as long as the rest of you sit quiet.”

There might be a left-handed meaning in what he said, but I was pretty sure of him, and with his own lantern at his feet to play light on him the stage started on. Our man made himself a cigarette, and, while he was doing it, the sleeves of his coat worked back a little, and we could see that his wrists were criss-crossed with scars. Stuffy Bill wanted to know how he’d gotten them, and if he was covered all over with the same silver marks.

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