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Title: The Nightrider's Feud

Author: Walter C. McConnell

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The Nightriders' Feud

By Walter C. McConnell

NEW YORK
THE COSMOPOLITAN PRESS
1912

Copyright, 1912, by
Walter C. McCONNELL

The Nightriders' Feud

CHAPTER I

John Redmond, the second, had just completed his education in a New York
college, having been graduated with high honors, and was therefore
prepared to go out into the world and set it on fire with his
brilliancy. But the call of the great business world was strangely
superseded by the "call of the wild," which had long since taken firm
hold upon his young heart. Since his earliest recollections his soul had
longed to go out into the wild Western country, and he was now fully
determined to appease his adventurous appetite amid the great wild
mountains of the West.

Thoughts concerning his future flitted fast through his study-ladened
brain as the train sped on toward his home. Yes, he would go to the
mountains and seek gold or coal where others, with less ability to find,
had passed over the immense wealth which must surely lie hid deep
beneath the great earthen mounds. This wealth, he thought, had been
placed there by the Maker of the mighty earth, that his great skill as
an engineer might be made known to the world. It was there for his own
pleasure; it had not been intended that others should make the
discovery. His training would enable him to make discoveries which
others had not been skillful enough to make. The life would be just to
his liking, and would fill a long-felt desire to invade the bowels of
the hitherto uninvaded depths of rocky earth. It was not his intention
to dela