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William MacLeod Raine. Clattering Hoofs
1. A Hostage for Pablo
2. A Tough Hombre Trapped
3. Pablo Lopez Takes a Hand
4. Sloan Interrupts
5. A Reunion at Blunt’s
6. A Chip on His Shoulder
7. Jim Budd and Sloan Agree to Bury the Past
8. Sandra Speaks Out
9. Concerning a Gent on the Make
10. Sandra Guesses a Secret
11. Stan Fraser Buys Chips
12. Sloan Renews a Promise
13. McNulty Has a Bad Five Minutes
14. The Half-Pint Squirt Says His Piece
15. The Rangers Make a Call
16. Chandler Newman Talks
17. In a Lady’s Bedroom
18. Enter Jug Packard
19. Guns on the Plaza
20. Who Killed Chuck Holloway?
21. Retrodden Trails
22. On the Dodge
23. Wanted — Dead or Alive
24. Governor Andrews Advises Sandra
25. Two of a Kind
26. Sandra Rides to Visit a Neighbor
27. Bob Saddles
28. “I’ve Made My Bed”
29. Mary Uhlmann Breaks a Long Silence
30. Uhlmann Borrows from a Friend
31. Sandra Talks with a Bad Man and Likes Him
32. Sandra Forgets Her Bringing Up
33. Uhlmann Makes a Refund
34. “Till A’ the Seas Gang Dry, My Dear”
35. Stan Writes a Note
36. Sandra Turns Nurse
37. When Rogues Fall Out
38. A Body in the Dust
39. ‘While the Sands o’ Life Shall Run’
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SANDRA SAT AT THE TABLE MAKING OUT A LIST OF GROCERIES to be bought for the ranch. Later in the day she and her brother Nelson would drive over to the cross-road store and get them.
“The sugar is plumb out too, Miss Sandra, an’ in two-three days I’ll be scrapin’ the bottom of the flour barrel,” Jim Budd said. “Beats all what a lot of eatin’ is done on this here ranch.”
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“Si, señorita, he will pay, but we will not let you go.”
Nelson let out a cry for help. Fear choked up in his throat. Pablo Lopez was a villain without conscience, and it was a pleasure to him to kill gringos. He recruited his band from the riff-raff of the border, and he preyed on his own race too.
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