Wunpost
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Coolidge Dane. Wunpost
CHAPTER I. THE DEATH VALLEY TRAIL
CHAPTER II. THE GATEWAY OF DREAMS
CHAPTER III. DUSTY RHODES EATS DIRT
CHAPTER IV. THE TREE OF LIFE
CHAPTER V. THE WILLIE MEENA
CHAPTER VI. CINCHED
CHAPTER VII. MORE DREAMS
CHAPTER VIII. THE BABES IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER IX. A NEW DEAL
CHAPTER X. THE SHORT SPORTS
CHAPTER XI. THE STINGING LIZARD
CHAPTER XII. BACK HOME
CHAPTER XIII. WITH HAY HOOKS
CHAPTER XIV. POISONED BAIT
CHAPTER XV. WUNPOST TAKES THEM ALL ON
CHAPTER XVI. DIVINE PROVIDENCE
CHAPTER XVII. THE ANSWER
CHAPTER XVIII. A LESSON
CHAPTER XIX. TAINTED MONEY
CHAPTER XX. THE WAR EAGLE
CHAPTER XXI. A LOCK OF HAIR
CHAPTER XXII. THE FEAR OF THE HILLS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RETURN OF THE BLOW-HARD
CHAPTER XXIV. SOMETHING NEW
CHAPTER XXV. THE CHALLENGE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE FINE PRINT
CHAPTER XXVII. A COME-BACK
CHAPTER XXVIII. WUNPOST HAS A BAD DREAM
CHAPTER XXIX. IN TRUST
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Standing alone in the desert, with her face bared to the moonlight and her curls shaken free to the wind, Wilhelmina smiled softly as she gazed after the stranger who already had won her heart. His language had been crude when he thought she was a boy, but that only proved the perfection of her disguise; and when she had asked if it made any difference, and confessed that she was a girl, he had bridged over the gap like a flash. “Hell–no!” he had said, as men oftentimes do to express the heartiest accord; and then he had added, with the gallantry due a lady, that Wilhelmina was a right pretty name. And tomorrow, as soon as he had staked out his claim–their claim–he was coming back to the ranch!
She started back up the long wash that led down from Jail Canyon, still musing on his masterful ways, but as she rounded the lower point and saw a light in the house a sudden doubt assailed her. Tellurium was her mule, to give to whom she chose, but he was matched to pull with Bodie when they needed a team and her father might not approve. And what would she say when she met her mother’s eye and she questioned her about this strange man? Yet she knew as well as anything that he was going to make her rich–and tomorrow he would bring back the mule. All she needed was faith, and the patience to wait; and she took her scolding so meekly that her mother repented it and allowed her to sleep in the tunnel.
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“Well, he is a fool!” burst out Dusty Rhodes spitefully, “and more than that, he’s a crook! Now that is what he done–he covered up that find and went back to the man that had grubstaked him. But this banker was no sucker, if he did have the name of staking every bum in Nevada. He was generous with his men and he give ’em all they asked for, but before he planked down a dollar he made ’em sign a contract that a corporation lawyer couldn’t break. Well, when Wunpost said he’d quit, Mr. Eells says all right–no hard feeling–better luck next time. But when Wunpost went back and opened up this vein Mr. Eells was Johnny-on-the-spot. He steps up to that hole and shows his contract, giving him an equal share of whatever Wunpost finds–and then he reads a clause giving him the right to take possession and to work the mine according to his judgment. And the first thing Wunpost knowed the mine was worked out and he was left holding the sack. But served him right, sez I, for trying to beat his outfitter, after eating his grub for two years!”
“But didn’t he receive anything?” inquired Mrs. Campbell. “That seems to me pretty sharp practice.”
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