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Max Brand. The Mountain Fugitive
The Mountain Fugitive
Table of Contents
I. — LEON, MISCHIEF-MAKER
II. — THE FIRST LESSON
III. — ONE FORTNIGHT
IV. — A CHANCE MEETING
V. — FATHER M'GUIRE QUESTIONS
VI. — LEON'S APOLOGY
VII. — A BIT OF STRATEGY
VIII. — A PROPOSITION
IX. - STIGMA
X. — JAILED
XI. "MIKE" O'ROURKE
XII. — A STOCKHOLDER
XIII. — SEEKING SHELTER
XIV. — A RUNNING START
XV. — IN HIDING
XVI. — THE SIGNAL
XVII. — STEVE LUCAS
XVIII. — CORNERING THE RAT
XIX. — TWO ENEMIES
XX. — ANDREW STARTS OUT
XXI. — APPEALING TO MIKE
XXII. — HOT WORDS
XXIII. — THE BIG SCRAP
XXIV. — IN CROTHERS CANYON
XXV. — TO KILL
XXVI. — THE FIGHT ENDS
XXVII. — GIVING HIMSELF UP
THE END
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Max Brand
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But here was I, full of consciousness of my hundred and sixty pounds of victorious brawn, laid flat on my back by a blow delivered by the fist of a little withered priest who had not three quarters of my bulk.
I say that I lay flat on my back and glared at him with a chill of dread working in my blood. He, in the meantime, was standing before me with a great emotion in his face. He was flushed, his teeth were set, his feet were braced well apart beneath his robe, and there was a strange glitter in his eyes.
