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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Award of Justice, by A. Maynard Barbour This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Award of Justice Told in the Rockies Author: A. Maynard Barbour Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30028] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AWARD OF JUSTICE *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE AWARD OF JUSTICE OR TOLD IN THE ROCKIES. A Pen Picture of the West. BY A. MAYNARD BARBOUR, AUTHOR OF "That Mainwaring Affair." "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof."--Ecc. vii, 8. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1901, by Rand, McNally & Co. DEDICATION. To W. James Barbour, My co-worker in this pleasant task, at whose suggestion it was undertaken, and by whose inspiration it has been guided, from inception to completion, this book is affectionately dedicated by the author, A. MAYNARD BARBOUR. THE AWARD OF JUSTICE By A. Maynard Barbour. CHAPTER I. The Pacific Express was due at Valley City at 1:45 p.m. Within ten minutes of that time, a spring-board wagon, containing two young men and drawn by a pair of bronchos, suddenly appeared around one end of the dingy little depot. One of the men, dressed in a tweed traveling suit, jumped hastily from the wagon, while the other, who looked like a prosperous young ranchman, seemed to have all he could attend to in holding the restive little ponies, who were rearing and kicking in their impatience at being compelled to stand. "I'm afraid, Ned," he said, "that you'll have to look out for your traps yourself; these little rats haven't been driven for four days, and they're feeling pretty frisky." "All right, Tom," responded the other, diving under the seat of the spring-board and bringing out the said "traps," which consisted of two grips, a rifle case, a set of fishing rods, and, last but not least, a large, square case which he handled with great care, and now held up to his companion saying, "See th
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