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XVIII. New Plans 162
XIX. The Crawling Stone Rise 169
XX. At the Dike 179
XXI. Supper in Camp 197
XXII. A Talk With Whispering Smith 207
XXIII. At the River 217
XXIV. Between Girlhood and Womanhood 225
XXV. The Man on the Frenchman 242
XXVI. Tower W 256
XXVII. Pursuit 262
XXVIII. The Sunday Murder 271
XXIX. Williams Cache 281
XXX. The Fight in the Cache 292
XXXI. The Death of Du Sang 305
XXXII. Mcloud and Dicksie 312
XXXIII. The Laugh of a Woman 320
XXXIV. A Midnight Visit 327
XXXV. The Call 334
XXXVI. Duty 340
XXXVII. Wickwire 346
XXXVIII. Into the North 352
XXXIX. Among the Coyotes 361
XL. A Sympathetic Ear 373
XLI. Dicksie's Ride 379
XLII. At the Door 389
XLIII. Closing In 395
XLIV. Crawling Stone Wash 403
XLV. Back to the Mountains 413

WHISPERING SMITH

CHAPTER I

THE WRECKING BOSS

News of the wreck at Smoky Creek reached Medicine Bend from Point of
Rocks at five o'clock. Sinclair, in person, was overseeing the making
up of his wrecking train, and the yard, usually quiet at that hour of
the morning, was alive with the hurry of men and engines. In the
trainmaster's room of the weather-beaten headquarters building,
nicknamed by railroad men "The Wickiup," early comers--sleepy-faced,
keen