Sunset Pass; or, Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
by Charles King
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- SUNSET PASS
- OR
- RUNNING THE GAUNTLET THROUGH APACHE LAND BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING
- AUTHOR OF "THE DESERTER", "A WAR-TIME WOOING", ETC COPYRIGHTED, 1890 BY JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY NEW YORK JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 150 WORTH ST., COR. MISSION PLACE
- CAPT. CHAS. KING
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- SUNSET PASS.
- CHAPTER I.
- A RASH RESOLVE.
- HE DREW LITTLE NELL CLOSE TO HIM.
- CHAPTER II.
- MANUELITO'S TREACHERY.
- MANUELITO WAS SHUFFLING ABOUT THE FIRE APPARENTLY DOING NOTHING.
- "WHERE'S MANUELITO?"
- CHAPTER III.
- ON THE ALERT.
- HIS FIRST DUTY SEEMED TO BE TO GET THE PROVISIONS FROM THE WAGON.
- "JIM, OLD BOY, WE'VE GOT TO PULL TOGETHER TO-NIGHT."
- "MY GOD! THERE'S NOT A LIVING SOUL IN SIGHT."
- CHAPTER IV.
- ON THE WATCH.
- BENDING DOWN HE RAISED HER IN HIS STRONG ARMS.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE PRISONER.
- AWAY HE FLEW AT FULL SPEED.
- THE TWO MEN SET TO WORK TO BUILD THEIR BREASTWORK.
- CHAPTER VI.
- MANUELITO'S FATE.
- NELLIE, CLINGING TO HER NURSE, WAS TERRIFIED BY THE SOUNDS.
- THE POOR DEVIL WAS NOW SEATED, BOUND AND HELPLESS, ON A ROCK BY THE ROADSIDE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- PIKE'S STRANGE DREAM.
- "THAT'S WHAT JIM TOOK FOR AN APACHE."
- ONE VEHEMENT KICK AND CURSE HE GAVE HIM.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE CAPTAIN'S RIDE.
- WITH ONE BACKWARD LOOK HE STAGGERED WEARILY ON.
- "MY GOD! WHAT CAN HAVE HAPPENED? IT'S CAPTAIN GWYNNE!"
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE ATTACK.
- EVIDENTLY THE ONE WHO WAS SHOT WAS A MAN OF SOME PROMINENCE AMONG THEM—POSSIBLY A CHIEF.
- ALL OF A SUDDEN A BLACK SHADOW RUSHED THROUGH THE AIR.
- CHAPTER X.
- LITTLE NED'S SHOT.
- "DOWN WITH THESE STONES, NOW!"
- THE BULLET OF THE LITTLE BALLARD HAD TAKEN HIM JUST UNDER THE EYE.
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