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Ernest Haycox. Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. — AT THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE
CHAPTER 2. — LUCY'S MAN
CHAPTER 3. — OBSCURE MEETINGS
CHAPTER 4. — THE SECOND WOMAN
CHAPTER 5. — DOUBT BEGINS
CHAPTER 6. — NEW CABIN ON THE ROGUE
CHAPTER 7. — BLOOD LUST
CHAPTER 8. — AT THE CREEK
CHAPTER 9. — THE SEEDS OF DOUBT
CHAPTER 10. — BLACK NIGHT
CHAPTER 11. — APPROACH OF JUDGMENT
CHAPTER 12. — DECISION OF THE CAMP
CHAPTER 13. — AT CORSON'S
CHAPTER 14. — OUTBREAK
CHAPTER 15. — CAROLINE
CHAPTER 16. — VARIOUS FAREWELLS
THE END
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Ernest Haycox
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He was a man who slept without dreaming, and who slept light. Thus when a gust of cold wind touched the back of his head his eyes came instantly open. He lay with his back to the side window and he had his arms beneath the bed covers so that he could not easily reach his revolver. There was a faint sliding sound in the room, and the sibilance of a man's heavy breathing. The breathing diminished for a little while, and then it grew greater and Stuart felt a hand move gingerly along the bed's edge. Stuart pictured the man's location—and swung and raised himself and seized the heavy shadow before him. His arms went around a thick body; he was carried off the bed by the man's rapid turn, and he was dropped to his feet. He hung on. He butted the top of his head against the prowler's chin and heard it crack; then the prowler's forearm came down on the back of his neck with all the power of a club. It stunned him and sent him falling backward upon the bed. He got his feet up and he plunged them full into the prowler's belly as the latter was about to fall upon him. His head ached in full violence, and flashes of light danced before his eyes. He heard the prowler stumble backward and curse under his breath; and then he reached under his pillow and seized up his gun. He righted himself on the bed for a shot. He fired at the man's moving shadow and in another moment the prowler, rushing low across the room, went out through the window, taking sash and glass with him.
He heard the man fall in the alley below. When he reached the window he saw nothing in the alley's black strip below him, but he caught the last swashing echoes of the man's steps as the latter ran through the pure mud toward the river.
