The Free Range
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Sullivan Francis William. The Free Range
CHAPTER I. FLINGING THE GAUNTLET
CHAPTER II. A LATE ARRIVAL
CHAPTER III. AN UNSETTLED SCORE
CHAPTER IV. THE SIX PISTOL SHOTS
CHAPTER V. STRATEGY AND A SURPRISE
CHAPTER VI. UGLY COMPANY
CHAPTER VII. PRAIRIE BELL
CHAPTER VIII. FOR REVENGE
CHAPTER IX. THE MAN IN THE MASK
CHAPTER X. WAR WITHOUT QUARTER
CHAPTER XI. MADE PRISONER
CHAPTER XII. JULIET ASSERTS HERSELF
CHAPTER XIII. THE HEATHEN CHINEE
CHAPTER XIV. SENTENCED
CHAPTER XV. COWLAND TOPSY-TURVY
CHAPTER XVI. A MESSAGE BY A STRANGE HAND
CHAPTER XVII. A BATTLE IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XVIII. THE IMMORTAL TEN
CHAPTER XIX. AN INDIAN COULEE
CHAPTER XX. SOMEBODY NEW TURNS UP
CHAPTER XXI. JULIE INVESTIGATES
CHAPTER XXII. THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CROSSING
CHAPTER XXIV. THE STORY OF LESTER
CHAPTER XXV. THE THREADS MEET
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After visiting the corral, Larkin paid his respects to the pump and refreshed himself for supper. Then he strolled around the long, rambling ranch house. Across the front, which faced southwest, had been built a low apology for a veranda on which a couple of uninviting chairs stood. He appropriated one of these and settled back to think.
The late sun, a red-bronze color, hung just above the horizon and softened the unlovely stretches of prairie into something brooding and beautiful. Thirty miles away the Rockies had become a mass of gray-blue fleeced across the top with lines of late snow – for it was early June.
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“I admire you for that,” said Bud genuinely, although all his hopes in this powerful ally went glimmering. “Let’s not talk shop any longer. It’s too good just to see you to think about anything but that.”
So, for a while, they reminisced of the days of their former friendship, by tacit agreement avoiding any reference to intimate things. And Larkin felt spring up in him the old love that he had convinced himself was dead; so that he added to his first resolution to succeed on the range, a second, that he would, in the end, conquer Juliet Bissell.
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