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Title: Bloom of Cactus

Author: Robert Ames Bennet

Illustrator: Ralph Pallen Coleman

Release Date: August 8, 2007 [EBook #22270]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Lennon elevated his rifle and sent a parting shot over
the heads of the fleeing riders"]

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BLOOM OF CACTUS

By
ROBERT AMES BENNET

Frontispiece by
RALPH PALLEN COLEMAN

Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1920

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Copyright, 1919, by Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved, including that of translation into
foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Ambushed 3
II. Off Trail 13
III. The Gila Monster 24
IV. Pards in Peril 35
V. Dead Hole 47
VI. Her Folks 55
VII. Craft and Cruelty 62
VIII. Cactus Carmena 75
IX. The Man Who Was 85
X. The Setter of Traps 95
XI. Cross Currents 107
XII. A Bargain 117
XIII. The Blossoming 127
XIV. The Prowler 136
XV. Crooked Ways 145
XVI. The Drop 156
XVII. Death Play 168
XVIII. The Attack 180
XIX. Out of the Frying Pan-- 192
XX. Into the Fire 201
XXI. Treachery 211
XXII. The Sacrifice 222
XXIII. Out of the Past 234
XXIV. His Daughter's Fathe