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Title: Raw Gold
A Novel

Author: Bertrand W. Sinclair

Illustrator: Clarence H. Rowe

Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18563]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HICKS DREW HIS AND SLAPPED ME OVER THE HEAD WITH IT, EVEN
AS MY FINGER CURLED ON THE TRIGGER.

_Frontispiece. Page 161._]

RAW GOLD

A NOVEL

BY

BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

_Illustrations by_
CLARENCE H. ROWE

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1907, by
STREET & SMITH

Copyright, 1908, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

Issued June, 1908

_Raw Gold_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Long Arm of the Law 7

II. A Reminiscent Hour 18

III. Birds of Prey 30

IV. A Tale Half Told 59

V. Mounted Again 50

VI. Stony Crossing 58

VII. Thirty Days in Irons 69

VIII. Lyn 85

IX. An Idle Afternoon 103

X. The Vanishing Act, and the Fruits Thereof 116

XI. The Gentleman Who Rode in the Lead 130

XII. We Lose Again 146

XIII. Outlawed 163

XIV. A Close Call 179

XV. Piegan Takes a Hand 197

XVI. In the Camp of the Enemy 214

XVII. A