The Stolen Stallion

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Max Brand. The Stolen Stallion

The Stolen Stallion

Table of Contents

I. — BRANDY

II. — SILVERTIP

III. — LAKE TAKES THE CHANCE

IV. — THE VICTOR

V. — THE HORSE HUNT

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VI. — PARADE

VII. — THE GREAT ENEMY

VIII. — REUNION

IX. — THE RODEO RACE

X. — SILVERTIP'S DISCOVERY

XI. — DESERT MEETING

XII. — THE PURSUIT

XIII. — SALT CREEK

XIV. — THE POOL

XV. — THE NEW WORLD

XVI. — THE CAPTURE

XVII. — AT PARMALEE

XVIII. — THE OLD STALLION

XIX. — SILVERTIP'S RETURN

XX. — THE SHERIFF TALKS

XXI. — JUAREZ, THE HORSE BREAKER

XXII. — LEFTY'S PROPOSITION

XXIII. — THE CROOKED THREE

XXIV. — OUT OF THE PAST

XXV. — THE GREAT RACE

XXVI. — SETTLEMENT

THE END

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Max Brand

Published by Good Press, 2021

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A cry came suddenly out of the throat of Richmond. He struck the stallion with the flat of his hand. And then he found himself leaning backward, fighting to get into an upright position, for the mount seemed to be leaping out from under the rider. Brandy had twisted his head a little to the side, in the full fury of his effort, as though he were about to turn a corner, and nothing could have been stranger than to see him boring his head so crookedly into the wind. One might have thought that he was looking back for orders from his rider.

That was the end of the race. As Richmond went by, his heart lifted into his throat by the prodigious striding of the stallion, he saw the face of Lake convulsed with malice and disbelief. And when Richmond pulled up at the starting point behind the barn, the mare was thirty lengths behind.

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