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Title: The Big-Town Round-Up

Author: William MacLeod Raine

Release Date: December 3, 2005 [eBook #17205]

Language: English

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THE BIG-TOWN ROUND-UP

by

WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

Author of
A Man Four-Square, The Sheriff's Son, Oh, You Tex!, Etc.

Frontispiece by George Giguere

[Frontispiece: Hard knuckles pressed cruelly into the
soft throat of the Villager. (Transcriber's note: most
of illustration missing; enough of its caption remaining
to locate its entirety in the book's text).]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1920, by William Macleod Raine
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

FOREWORD
I. CONCERNING A STREET TWELVE MILES LONG
II. CLAY APPOINTS HIMSELF CHAPERON
III. THE BIG TOWN
IV. A NEW USE FOR A WATER HOSE
V. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SALVATION ARMY
VI. CLAY TAKES A TRANSFER
VII. ARIZONA FOLLOWS ITS LAWLESS IMPULSE
VIII. "THE BEST SINGLE-BARRELED SPORT IVER I MET"
IX. BEATRICE UP STAGE
X. JOHNNIE SEES THE POSTMASTER
XI. JOHNNIE GREEN--MATCH-MAKER
XII. CLAY READS AN AD AND ANSWERS IT
XIII. A LATE EVENING CALL
XIV. STARRING AS A SECOND-STORY MAN
XV. THE GANGMAN SEES RED
XVI. A FACE IN THE NIGHT
XVII. JOHNNIE MAKES A JOKE
XVIII. BEATRICE GIVES AN OPTION
XIX. A LADY WEARS A RING
XX. THE CAUTIOUS GUY SLIPS UP
XXI. AT THE HEAD OF THE STAIRS
XXII. TWO MEN IN A LOCKED ROOM
XXIII. JOHNNIE COMES INTO HIS OWN
XXIV. CLAY LAYS DOWN THE LAW
XXV. JOHNNIE SAYS HE IS MUCH OBLIGED
XXVI. A LOCKED GATE
XXVII. "NO VIOLENCE"
XXVIII. IN BAD
XXIX. BAD NEWS
XXX. BEE MAKES A MORNING CALL
XXXI. INTO THE HANDS OF HIS ENEMY
XXXII. MR. LINDSAY RECEIVES
XXXIII. BROMFIELD MAKES AN OFFER
XXXIV. BEATRICE QUALIFIE