"I Conquered"

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Titus Harold. "I Conquered"

"I Conquered"

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

Denunciation

CHAPTER II

A Young Man Goes West

CHAPTER III

"I've Done My Pickin'"

CHAPTER IV

The Trouble Hunter

CHAPTER V

Jed Philosophizes

CHAPTER VI

Ambition is Born

CHAPTER VII

With Hoof and Tooth

CHAPTER VIII

A Head of Yellow Hair

CHAPTER IX

Pursuit

CHAPTER X

Capture

CHAPTER XI

A Letter and a Narrative

CHAPTER XII

Woman Wants

CHAPTER XIII

VB Fights

CHAPTER XIV

The Schoolhouse Dance

CHAPTER XV

Murder

CHAPTER XVI

The Candle Burns

CHAPTER XVII

Great Moments

CHAPTER XVIII

The Lie

CHAPTER XIX

Through the Night

CHAPTER XX

The Last Stand

CHAPTER XXI

Guns Crash

CHAPTER XXII

Tables Turn; and Turn Again

CHAPTER XXIII

Life, the Trophy

CHAPTER XXIV

Victory

CHAPTER XXV

"The Light!"

CHAPTER XXVI

To the Victor

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Harold Titus

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Enforced idleness was an added handicap. Physical activity would have made the beginning much easier, for before he realized it Danny was in the thick of battle. A system that had been stimulated by poison in increasing proportion to its years almost from boyhood began to make unequivocal demands for the stuff that had held it to high pitch. Tantalizingly at first, with the thirsting throat and jumping muscles; then with thundering assertions that warped the vision and numbed the intellect and toyed with the will. He gave up trying to think ahead. His entire mental force went into the grapple with that desire. Where he had thought to find possible distress in the land out yonder, it had come to meet him—and of a sort more fearful, more tremendous, than any which he had been able to conceive.

Through the rise of that fevered fighting the words of his father rang constantly in Danny's mind.

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