The Plunderer

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Norton Roy. The Plunderer

CHAPTER I. BULLY PRESBY

CHAPTER II. THE CROIX D’OR

CHAPTER III. AN UGLY WATCHMAN

CHAPTER IV. THE BLACK DEATH

CHAPTER V. THE AGED ENGINEER

CHAPTER VI. MY LADY OF THE HORSE

CHAPTER VII. THE WOMAN UNAFRAID

CHAPTER VIII. THE INCONSISTENT BULLY

CHAPTER IX. WHERE A GIRL ADVISES

CHAPTER X. TROUBLE STALKS ABROAD

CHAPTER XI. BELLS’ VALIANT FIGHT

CHAPTER XII. A DISASTROUS BLOW

CHAPTER XIII. THE DYNAMITER

CHAPTER XIV “THOUGH LOVE SAY NAY”

CHAPTER XV “MR. SLOAN SPEAKS”

CHAPTER XVI. BENEFITS RETURNED

CHAPTER XVII. WHEN REASON SWINGS

CHAPTER XVIII. THE BULLY MEETS HIS MASTER

CHAPTER XIX. THE QUEST SUPREME

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Plainly the rambling log structure was a road house and the stopping place for a mountain stage. It had the watering trough in front, the bundle of iron pails cluttered around the rusted iron pump, and the trampled muddy hollow created by many tired hoofs striking vigorously to drive away the flies. It was in a tiny flat beside the road, and mountains were everywhere; hard-cut, relentless giants, whose stern faces portrayed a perpetual constancy. At the trough two burros, with their packs deftly lashed, thrust soft gray muzzles deep into the water, and held rigid their long gray ears, casting now and then a wise look at the young man in worn mining clothes who stood patiently beside them.

Another man, almost a giant in size, but with a litheness of movement that told of marvelous physical strength, emerged from the door of the road house, and the babel of sound that had been stilled when he entered, but a few minutes before, rose again. He crossed to the well, and smiled from half-humorous eyes at the younger man standing beside the animals, and said: “Bumped into a hornet’s nest. Butted into an indignation meetin’. A Blackfoot war powwow when the trader had furnished free booze would have been a peace party put up against it.”

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“Say,” admiringly commented the big observer on the rock, “we’d play hob helpin’ him out. He don’t need help, that feller don’t. If I ever saw a man that could take care of himself–”

“He certainly is the one!” his companion finished the sentence.

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