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Title: Riders of the Silences

Author: John Frederick

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RIDERS OF THE SILENCES

by

JOHN FREDERICK

With Frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson

[Frontispiece: Each one of them should have ridden alone to be properly
appreciated. To see them together was like watching a flock of eagles.]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers -------- New York
Published by arrangement with The H. K. Fly Company
Copyright, 1920, by
The H. K. Fly Company
Copyright, 1920,
The Munsey Co.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. The Thunderbolt
II. Irene
III. The Launching of The Bolt
IV. The Corner Plot
V. Hurley
VI. Fear
VII. The Voice in The Storm
VIII. Belief
IX. Riders of The Silences
X. The Guard
XI. Jack Grows Up
XII. The Burial
XIII. A Tale of The Sledge
XIV. McGurk
XV. Gold Hair
XVI. Ennui
XVII. Black Gandil
XVIII. Five Minutes' Silence
XIX. Partners
XX. Full Dress
XXI. The Dance
XXII. The Overtone
XXIII. The Fear of The Living
XXIV. The Luck of The Shipwrecked
XXV. Jacqueline Waits
XXVI. A Game of Suppose
XXVII. The Trail
XXVIII. A Hint of White
XXIX. Jack
XXX. The Whisper of The Knife
XXXI. Laughter
XXXII. A Tale of A Careless Man
XXXIII. A Count To Ten
XXXIV. Tiger-Heart
XXXV. Jack Hears a Small Voice
XXXVI. A Voice in The Night
XXXVII. A Man's Death
XXXVIII. The Waiting
XXXIX. The Cross Goes O