“I Take it I am the One Wanted,” Said Williston.
LANGFORD OF THE THREE BARS
By KATE AND VIRGIL D. BOYLES
With Frontispiece in Color
By N. C. WYETH
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS—NEW YORK
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1907
Published April 15, 1907
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London, England
All rights reserved
Including dramatic rights
TO OUR MOTHER
MRS. MARTHA DILLIN BOYLES
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—THE ISLAND WITH A MYSTERY
- CHAPTER II—“ON THE TRAIL”
- CHAPTER III—LOUISE
- CHAPTER IV—“MAGGOT”
- CHAPTER V—AT THE BON AMI
- CHAPTER VI—“NOTHIN’ BUT A HOSS THIEF, ANYWAY”
- CHAPTER VII—THE PRELIMINARY
- CHAPTER VIII—THE COUNTY ATTORNEY
- CHAPTER IX—THE ATTACK ON THE LAZY S
- CHAPTER X—IN WHICH THE X Y Z FIGURES SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUSLY
- CHAPTER XI—“YOU ARE—THE BOSS”
- CHAPTER XII—WAITING
- CHAPTER XIII—MRS. HIGGINS RALLIES TO HER COLORS
- CHAPTER XIV—CHANNEL ICE
- CHAPTER XV—THE GAME IS ON
- CHAPTER XVI—THE TRIAL
- CHAPTER XVII—GORDON RIDES INTO THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XVIII—FIRE!
- CHAPTER XIX—AN UNCONVENTIONAL TEA PARTY
- CHAPTER XX—THE ESCAPE
- CHAPTER XXI—THE MOVING SHADOW
- CHAPTER XXII—THE OUTLAW’S LAST STAND
- CHAPTER XXIII—THE PARTY AT THE LAZY S
LANGFORD OF THE THREE BARS
CHAPTER I—THE ISLAND WITH A MYSTERY
He said positively to Battle Ax, his scraggy buckskin cow pony, that they would ride to the summit of this one bluff, and that it should be the last. But he had said the same thing many times since striking the barren hill region flanking both sides of the river. Hump after hump had been surmounted since the sound of the first promise had tickled