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Title: The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush

Author: Francis Lynde

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THE HONORABLE SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH

[Illustration: "He's taken our retainer!" snapped the vice-president]

THE HONORABLE
SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH

BY

FRANCIS LYNDE

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK : : : : : 1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

* * * * *

Published September, 1913

[Illustration]

TO MR. GEORGE ADY

My Regius Professor in the School of Western Railroading, and
himself a keen observer, _in situ_, of the conditions which I have
herein sought to portray, this book is most affectionately
inscribed.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BECAUSE PATRICIA SAID "NO" 3

II. THE BOSS 26

III. A FALSE GALLOP OF MEMORIES 40

IV. THE HIGHBINDERS 56

V. AT WARTRACE HALL 69

VI. ON THE WING OF OCCASIONS 86

VII. A BATTLE ROYAL 96

VIII. THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT 110

IX. THE RANK AND FILE 121

X. IN THE HERBARIUM 138

XI. THE GREAT GAME 148

XII. A WELL-SPRING IN THE DESERT 165

XIII. THE LIEGEMAN 178

XIV. BARRIERS INVISIBLE 193

XV. SWORD-PLAY 203

XVI. THE SAFE-BLOWER 213

XVII. ON THE KNEES OF THE HIGH GODS 230

XVIII. THE CHASM 241

XIX. A COG IN THE WHEEL 256

XX. A STONE FOR BREAD 264

XXI. THE UNDER-DOG 280

XXII. THE ICONOCLAST