The Border Boys with the Texas Rangers
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Border Boys with the Texas Rangers
CHAPTER I “IN TEXAS DOWN ON THE RIO GRANDE.”
CHAPTER II. THE HUMBLING OF SHORTY
CHAPTER III. AN ATTEMPT AT “GETTING EVEN.”
CHAPTER IV. WITH THE RANGERS
CHAPTER V. JACK’S CHANCE
CHAPTER VI. THE POOL OF DEATH
CHAPTER VII. A STRANGE VALLEY
CHAPTER VIII. NATURE’S PRISONERS
CHAPTER IX. A CLIMB FOR LIFE
CHAPTER X. A BATTLE IN MID–AIR
CHAPTER XI. RANGERS ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XII. A BAFFLING PURSUIT
CHAPTER XIII. THE CAPTAIN’S STORY
CHAPTER XIV. RALPH’S HOUR OF DANGER
CHAPTER XV. A “BLANK WALL.”
CHAPTER XVI. LOST IN THE BURNING DESERT
CHAPTER XVII. TWO MEN OF THE AIR
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SANDSTORM
CHAPTER XIX. THE BATTLE AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE
CHAPTER XX. WHERE STRATEGY WON OUT
CHAPTER XXI. THE STAGE HOLD–UP
CHAPTER XXII. OFF ON A MISSION
CHAPTER XXIII. THE HERMIT OF THE YUCCA
CHAPTER XXIV. BY SHEER GRIT
CHAPTER XXV. THE GREAT STAMPEDE
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But at the very instant that the Ranger’s finger pressed the trigger something came swishing and snaking through the air, falling in a loop about him and pinioning his arms. The gun cracked as Shorty was yanked from his feet, but the bullet merely ploughed a little furrow in the ground. The next minute he was rolling in the dust for the second time, roped as neatly as ever he had lassoed a yearling, by the rawhide of Captain Atkinson himself.
The captain, who had been in advance, as we know, had not witnessed the first part of the drama which had so nearly ended in a tragedy, but had been apprised of it when Shorty’s pinto pony had flashed by him with half a dozen shouting Rangers at its heels. The minute it had been roped he instituted inquiries, and hearing what had occurred, he judged from his acquaintance with Shorty’s character that his presence might be needed at the scene of the Ranger’s unhorsing.
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“You’re sure right, young chap,” agreed Captain Atkinson, “but right now I’d like to ask you who you and your two friends are. You don’t look as if you belonged about here.”
“We don’t. My name is Jack Merrill, this is Walt Phelps and yonder is Ralph Stetson, a school chum and – ”
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