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Макс Брэнд. The False Rider
The False Rider
Table of Contents
I. — DUFF GREGOR
II. — STAGE HOLDUP
III. — BARRY CHRISTIAN
IV. — A FOUNDATION STONE
V. — AT CROW'S NEST
VI. — TAXI CALLS
VII. — WILBUR'S BANK
VIII. — THE VALUE OF A NAME
IX. — A CHANCE MEETING
X. — GREGOR'S PREPARATIONS
XI. — SAFE-CRACKING
XII. — THE LOOT
XIII. — TAXI'S SURPRISE
XIV. THE POSSE
XV. — SILVER'S ARRIVAl
XVI. — WILBUR'S DECLARATION
XVII. — A WOMAN'S POWER
XVIII. — A GATHERING STORM
XIX. — TAXI'S LONE HAND
XX. — INSIDE THE JAIL
XXI. — THE MOB
XXII. — TWO FUGITIVES
XXIII. — THE GAMBLING CHANCE
XXIV. — MISSING LOOT
XXV. — IN THE DARK
XXVI. — THE RETURN
THE END
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Max Brand
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Yes, the story was true. There were a dozen—no, there were twenty little gleams of brightness in the face of Silver. Bullets had cut the flesh or drilled through it. Knives had done their share. Such danger as he had made his bedfellow could not be endured for many years without leaving its marks.
In fact, there was a whole pattern of war on the face of Jim Silver, very dimly sketched in, to be sure, but visible to a keen eye when the slant light of such a sun as this fell straight against the skin.
