The Short Cut
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Desert Valley, The Everlasting Whisper, The Short Cut (Jackson Gregory Masterpiece Collection)
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- THE SHORT CUT
- JACKSON GREGORY
- Author of "Under Handicap," "The Outlaw"
- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON
- NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1916
- TO "MOTHER" McGLASHAN AND GENERAL C. F. McGLASHAN
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be . . . . . . Frontispiece "I want just to smoke and watch you and listen while you talk." She made herself as comfortable as she could, drew her camera from its case, and waited a patient quarter of an hour. "I call upon you to give yourself up!" he shouted. "Stop, Red, or I shoot this time!"
- THE SHORT CUT
- CHAPTER I THE TRAGEDY
- CHAPTER II THE SHADOW
- CHAPTER III SUSPICION
- CHAPTER IV THE WHITE HUNTRESS
- CHAPTER V THE HOME COMING OF RED RECKLESS
- CHAPTER VI THE PROMISE OF LITTLE SAXON
- CHAPTER VII THE GLADNESS THAT SINGS
- [Illustration: "I want just to smoke and watch you and listen while you talk."]
- CHAPTER VIII "A GAME OF BLUFF AND THE GAMBLER WINS!"
- CHAPTER IX THE CONTEMPT OF SLEDGE HUME
- CHAPTER X SHANDON'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
- CHAPTER XI WANDA'S DISCOVERY
- [Illustration: She made herself as comfortable as she could, drew her camera from its case, and waited a patient quarter of an hour.]
- CHAPTER XII THE TALES OF MR. WILLIE DART
- CHAPTER XIII SLEDGE HUME MAKES A CALL AND LAYS A WAGER
- CHAPTER XIV IN WANDA'S CAVE
- CHAPTER XV WILLIE DART PICKS A LOCK
- CHAPTER XVI AND SOLVES A FASCINATING MYSTERY
- CHAPTER XVII "WHERE'S THAT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND? WHAT'S THE ANSWER?"
- CHAPTER XVIII THE TRUTH
- CHAPTER XIX SHANDON TAKES HIS STAND
- CHAPTER XX HUME PLAYS A TRUMP
- CHAPTER XXI THE SHORT CUT
- CHAPTER XXII THE FUGITIVE
- CHAPTER XXIII HELGA STRAWN PLAYS THE GAME
- CHAPTER XXIV UNDER THE SURFACE
- CHAPTER XXV RED RECKLESS ON LITTLE SAXON
- [Illustration: "I call upon you to give yourself up!" he shouted. "Stop, Red, or I shoot this time!"]
- CHAPTER XXVI THE LAUGHTER OF HELGA STRAWN
- CHAPTER XXVII HUME RIDES THE ONE OPEN TRAIL
- CHAPTER XXVIII "IT IS HOME!"
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