The Night Riders

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Cullum Ridgwell. The Night Riders

The Night Riders

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The Night-Riders

CHAPTER I

IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES

CHAPTER II

MOSQUITO BEND

CHAPTER III

THE BLIND MAN

CHAPTER IV

THE NIGHT-RIDERS

CHAPTER V

TRESLER BEGINS HIS EDUCATION

CHAPTER VI

THE KILLING OF MANSON ORR

CHAPTER VII

WHICH DEALS WITH THE MATTER OF DRINK

CHAPTER VIII

JOE NELSON INDULGES IN A LITTLE MATCH-MAKING

CHAPTER IX

TRESLER INVOLVES HIMSELF FURTHER; THE LADY JEZEBEL IN A FREAKISH MOOD

CHAPTER X

A WILD RIDE

CHAPTER XI

THE TRAIL OF THE NIGHT-RIDERS

CHAPTER XII

THE RISING OF A SUMMER STORM

CHAPTER XIII

THE BEARDING OF JAKE

CHAPTER XIV

A PORTENTOUS INTERVIEW

CHAPTER XV

AT WILLOW BLUFF

CHAPTER XVI

WHAT LOVE WILL DO

CHAPTER XVII

THE LIGHTED LAMP

CHAPTER XVIII

THE RENUNCIATION

CHAPTER XIX

HOT UPON THE TRAIL

CHAPTER XX

BY THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP

CHAPTER XXI

AT WIDOW DANGLEY’S

CHAPTER XXII

THE PURSUIT OF RED MASK

CHAPTER XXIII

A RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES

CHAPTER XXIV

ARIZONA

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Ridgwell Cullum

A Romance of Early Montana

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The result was inevitable. By midnight there were four richer citizens in Forks, and a newcomer who was poorer by his change out of a hundred-dollar bill. But Tresler lost quite cheerfully. He never really knew how it was he lost, whether it was his bad play or bad luck. He was too tired and sleepy long before the game ended. He realized next morning, when he came to reflect, that in some mysterious manner he had been done. However, he took his initiation philosophically, making only a mental reservation for future guidance.

That night he slept on a palliasse of straw, with a pillow consisting of a thin bolster propped on his outer clothes. Three very yellow blankets made up the tally of comfort. And the whole was spread out on the floor of a room in which four other men were sleeping noisily.

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