The Death Shot

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Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

Chapter One

Two sorts of Slave-Owners

Chapter Two

A flat refusal

Chapter Three

A Forest Post-Office

Chapter Four

Two good girls

Chapter Five

A photograph in the forest

Chapter Six

A coon-chase interrupted

Chapter Seven

Murder without remorse

Chapter Eight

The coon-hunter cautious

Chapter Nine

An assassin in retreat

Chapter Ten

The eve of departure

Chapter Eleven

Under the Trysting Tree

Chapter Twelve

The wrong man

Chapter Thirteen

The coon-hunter at home

Chapter Fourteen

Why comes he not?

Chapter Fifteen

A moonlight moving

Chapter Sixteen

What has become of Clancy?

Chapter Seventeen

A bullet extracted

Chapter Eighteen

“To the sheriff!”

Chapter Nineteen

The “Belle of Natchez.”

Chapter Twenty

Saved by a sister

Chapter Twenty One

Seized by spectral arms

Chapter Twenty Two

Up and down

Chapter Twenty Three

The sleep of the assassin

Chapter Twenty Four

The coon-hunter conscience-stricken

Chapter Twenty Five

An unceremonious search

Chapter Twenty Six

Tell-tale tracks

Chapter Twenty Seven

Additional evidence

Chapter Twenty Eight

“To the jail!”

Chapter Twenty Nine

A scheme of colonisation

Chapter Thirty

News from Natchez

Chapter Thirty One

Spectres in the street

Chapter Thirty Two

The “Choctaw Chief.”

Chapter Thirty Three

The murderer unmasked

Chapter Thirty Four

“Will you be one of us?”

Chapter Thirty Five

A ghost going its rounds

Chapter Thirty Six

“She is true—still true!”

Chapter Thirty Seven

The home of the hunted slave

Chapter Thirty Eight

An excursion by canoe

Chapter Thirty Nine

Is it a corpse?

Chapter Forty

“Across the Sabine.”

Chapter Forty One

A repentant sinner

Chapter Forty Two

The prairie caravan

Chapter Forty Three

The hand of God

Chapter Forty Four

A cloud on the cliffs

Chapter Forty Five

A suspicious surveillance

Chapter Forty Six

A suspected servant

Chapter Forty Seven

Opposite emblems

Chapter Forty Eight

A blank day

Chapter Forty Nine

Waiting the word

Chapter Fifty

An uncanny skulker

Chapter Fifty One

Locked in

Chapter Fifty Two

Massacre without mercy

Chapter Fifty Three

A horrid spectacle

Chapter Fifty Four

Riding double

Chapter Fifty Five

Tired travellers

Chapter Fifty Six

Spectral equestrians

Chapter Fifty Seven

Planning a capture

Chapter Fifty Eight

Across the ford

Chapter Fifty Nine

A Foiled Ambuscade

Chapter Sixty

“The Live-Oak.”

Chapter Sixty One

A ruffian triumphant

Chapter Sixty Two

“Help! Help!”

Chapter Sixty Three

An oath to be kept

Chapter Sixty Four

A wild farewell

Chapter Sixty Five

For the rendezvous

Chapter Sixty Six

A scouting party

Chapter Sixty Seven

A straying traveller

Chapter Sixty Eight

“Brasfort.”

Chapter Sixty Nine

Shadows behind

Chapter Seventy

Surrounded and disarmed

Chapter Seventy One

A pathless plain

Chapter Seventy Two

The prairie stocks

Chapter Seventy Three

Helpless and hopeless

Chapter Seventy Four

Coyote Creek

Chapter Seventy Five

A Transformation

Chapter Seventy Six

Mestizo and mulatto

Chapter Seventy Seven

A strayed traveller

Chapter Seventy Eight

Hours of agony

Chapter Seventy Nine

An unexpected visitor

Chapter Eighty

A Resurrectionist

Chapter Eighty One

The voice of vengeance

Chapter Eighty Two

A man nearly mad

Chapter Eighty Three

At length the “Death Shot.”

Chapter Eighty Four

The Scout’s Report

Chapter Eighty Five

A change of programme

Chapter Eighty Six

Alone with the Dead

Chapter Eighty Seven

Hostile Cohorts

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