The Texican
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Coolidge Dane. The Texican
CHAPTER I. VERDE CROSSING
CHAPTER II. GOOD EYE, THE MAVERICK KING
CHAPTER III. THE DOUBLE CROSS
CHAPTER IV. THE SHOW-DOWN
CHAPTER V. LOST DOG CAÑON
CHAPTER VI "THE VOICE OF REASON"
CHAPTER VII. THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER VIII. THE DAY AFTER
CHAPTER IX. DEATH AND TAXES
CHAPTER X. STAMPEDED
CHAPTER XI. THE CATTLE WAR
CHAPTER XII. MOUNTAIN LAW
CHAPTER XIII. WELCOME HOME
CHAPTER XIV. THE KANGAROO COURT
CHAPTER XV. THE REVOLUTION IN FACT
CHAPTER XVI. BACK TO NATURE
CHAPTER XVII. THE POWER OF THE PRESS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAW'S DELAY
CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST CHANCE
CHAPTER XX. THE LAW AND THE EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XXI. NEVER AGAIN
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THE languid quiet of midday lay upon the little road-house that stood guard by Verde Crossing. Old Crit and his wild Texas cowboys had left the corral at dawn, riding out mysteriously with their running irons in their chaps; the dogs had crawled under José Garcia's house and gone to sleep; to the north the Tonto trail stretched away vacant and only the brawling of the Verde as it rushed over the rocky ford suggested the savage struggle that was going on in the land. Within the adobe fort that served for both store and saloon Angevine Thorne, Old Crit's roustabout, sat tipped back in his chair breathing thoughtfully through a mouth-organ while a slender Mexican girl, lingering by the doorway, listened in childish adoration.
"Oyez, Babe," she pleaded, lisping in broken English, "sing 'Work iss Done' for me, otra vez, once more."
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"That's what," replied Babe, ungraciously, "you done queered yourself with her for life. She won't stand for nothin' aginst her people."
"Huh!" grumbled the newcomer, "that's what comes from drinkin' yore pisen whiskey. I begin to savvy now, Pardner, why you passed up that sheep-herder dope and took water."
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