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Title: Keith of the Border

Author: Randall Parrish

Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7510]
Posting Date: August 6, 2009

Language: English

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KEITH OF THE BORDER

A TALE OF THE PLAINS

By Randall Parrish

Author of "My Lady of the North," "My Lady of the South." "When
Wilderness Was King," etc.

CONTENTS

I The Plainsman
II The Scene of Tragedy
III An Arrest
IV An Old Acquaintance
V The One Way
VI The Escape
VII In the Sand Desert
VIII The Wilderness Cabin
IX The Girl of the Cabin
X Mr. Hawley Reveals Himself
XI The Fight in the Dark
XII Through the Night Shadows
XIII The Ford of the Arkansas
XIV The Landlady of the Occidental
XV Again Christie Maclaire
XVI Introducing Doctor Fairbain
XVII In the Next Room
XVIII Interviewing Willoughby
XIX A Glimpse at Conspiracy
XX Hope Goes to Sheridan
XXI The Marshal of Sheridan
XXII An Interrupted Interview
XXIII An Unexpected Meeting
XXIV A Mistake in Assassination
XXV A Reappearance of the General
XXVI A Chance Conversation
XXVII Miss Hope Suggests
XXVIII The Stage Door of the Trocadero
XXIX By Force of Arms
XXX In Christie's Room
XXXI The Search for the Missing
XXXII Fairbain and Christie
XXXIII Following the Trail
XXXIV Again at the Cabin
XXXV The Cabin Taken
XXXVI The Duel in the Desert
XXXVII At the Water-Hole

KEITH OF THE BORDER

A TALE OF THE PLAINS

Chapter I. The Plainsman

The man was riding just below the summit of the ridge, occasionally
uplifting his head so as to gaze across the crest, shading his eyes with
one hand to thus better concentrate his vision. Both horse and rider
plainly exhibited signs of weariness, but every movement