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Title: The Ramrodders
A Novel

Author: Holman Day

Release Date: March 7, 2005 [EBook #15278]

Language: English

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THE RAMRODDERS

BY HOLMAN DAY

AUTHOR OF KING SPRUCE, ETC.

1910

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. THE BAITING OF THE ANCIENT LION

II. THE LINE-UP OF THE FIGHT

III. DENNIS KAVANAGH'S GIRL

IV. THE DUKE AT BAY

V. A CAUCUS, AS IT WAS PLANNED

VI. A CAUCUS, AND HOW IT WAS RUN

VII. WITH THE KAVANAGH AT HOME

VIII. THE MANTLE OF THELISMER THORNTON

IX. IN THE CENTRE OF THE BIG STATE WEB

X. A POLITICAL CONVERT

XI. A MAN FROM THE SHADOWS

XII. DEALS AND IDEALS

XIII. THE DUKE'S DOUBLE CAMPAIGN

XIV. THE BEES AND THE WOULD-BES

XV. SITTING IN FOR THE DEAL

XVI. THE HANDS ARE DEALT

XVII. THE ODD TRICK

XVIII. THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEEP

XIX. THE RAMRODDERS RAMPANT

XX. A GIRL'S HEART

XXI. STARTING A MULE TEAM

XXII. FROM THE MOUTH OF A MAID

XXIII. A TRUCE

XXIV. A GOVERNOR AND A MAID

XXV. WOMEN, AND ONE WOMAN

XXVI. THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAID

XXVII. THE EVERLASTING PROBLEM

XXVIII. ONE PROBLEM SOLVED

THE RAMRODDERS

CHAPTER I

THE BAITING OF THE ANCIENT LION

War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of Fort
Canibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidly
faced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancient
blockhouse, relic of the "Bloodless War," and upon the structure that
Thelismer Thornton had converted from officers' barracks to his own uses
as a dwelling.

At dawn a telegraph messenger jangled the bell in the dim hall of "The
Barracks." It was an urgent cry from the chairman of the Republican
State Co