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Title: Shoe-Bar Stratton

Author: Joseph Bushnell Ames

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SHOE-BAR STRATTON

by

JOSEPH B. AMES

[Illustration: "I can stand here till I get tired," retorted Lynch.]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with The Century Company

Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1922, by The Century Co.

Printed in U. S. A.

To
BILL McBRIDE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Back from the Dead 3
II Crooked Work 13
III Mistress Mary Quite Contrary 24
IV The Branding-Iron 31
V Tex Lynch 41
VI The Blood-Stained Saddle 51
VII Rustlers 60
VIII The Hoodoo Outfit 70
IX Revelations 81
X Buck Finds Out Something 91
XI Danger 106
XII Thwarted 119
XIII Counterplot 127
XIV The Lady From the Past 136
XV "Blackleg" 145
XVI The Unexpected 153
XVII The Primeval Instinct 166
XVIII A Change of Base 176
XIX The Mysterious Motor-Car 186
XX Catastrophe 197
XXI What Mary Thorne Found 208
XXII Nerve 219
XXIII Where the Wheel Tracks Le