Ronicky Doone
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Max Brand. Ronicky Doone
Chapter One. A Horse in Need
Chapter Two. Friendly Enemies
Chapter Three. At Stillwater
Chapter Four. His Victim's Trouble
Chapter Five. Macklin's Library
Chapter Six. The New York Trail
Chapter Seven. The First Clue
Chapter Eight. Two Apparitions
Chapter Nine. A Bold Venture
Chapter Ten. Mistaken Identity
Chapter Eleven. A Cross-Examination
Chapter Twelve. The Strange Bargain
Chapter Thirteen. Doone Wins
Chapter Fourteen. Her Little Joke
Chapter Fifteen. The Girl Thief
Chapter Sixteen. Disarming Suspicion
Chapter Seventeen. Old Scars
Chapter Eighteen. The Spider's Web
Chapter Nineteen. Stacked Cards
Chapter Twenty. Trapped!
Chapter Twenty-one. The Miracle
Chapter Twenty-two. Mark Makes a Move
Chapter Twenty-three. Caroline takes Command
Chapter Twenty-four. The Ultimate Sacrifice
Chapter Twenty-five. Unhappy Freedom
Chapter Twenty-six. Hills and Sea
Chapter Twenty-seven. The Last Stand
Chapter Twenty-eight. Hope Deferred
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Again and again Gregg spurred the bay cruelly.
She winced from the pain and snorted, but, apparently having not the slightest knowledge of bucking, she could only shake her head and send a ringing whinny of appeal up the slope of the mountain, toward the approaching rider.
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The two men who had come out in the buckboard listened to the tale with expressionless faces. As a matter of fact they had already heard in Stillwater that no less a person than Ronicky Doone was on his way toward that village in pursuit of a man who had ridden off on the famous bay mare, Lou. But they accepted Ronicky's bland version of the accident with perfect calm and with many expressions of sympathy. They would have other things to say after they had deposited the wounded man in Stillwater.
The trip in was a painful one for Bill Gregg. For one thing the exhaustion of the long three days' trip was now causing a wave of weariness to sweep over him. The numbness, which had come through the leg immediately after the shooting, was now replaced by a steady and continued aching. And more than all he was unnerved by the sense of utter failure, utter loss. Never in his life had he fought so bitterly and steadily for a thing, and yet he had lost at the very verge of success.
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