E-text prepared by Al Haines







Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.

[Frontispiece: Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice,
half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.]



THE SHORT CUT


BY

JACKSON GREGORY



Author of "Under Handicap," "The Outlaw"




WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON




NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1916




COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.




TO
"MOTHER" McGLASHAN
AND
GENERAL C. F. McGLASHAN




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