BY
ALBERT M. TREYNOR
AUTHOR OF
THE TRAIL FROM DEVIL'S COUNTRY.
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1924, 1926,
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY. INC.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I The Ambushed Trail
II Knights of the Law
III Without Mercy
IV Find the Woman
V Shadows of Silence
VI The Doorway of Dread
VII The Hunted Woman
VIII The Runaway Girl
IX Go Get 'Em!
X No-Man's Country
XI The Voice of Warning
XII The Rendezvous
XIII Blind-Man's Chase
XIV Paths of Peril
XV The Brink of Death
XVI Unseen Enemies
XVII At Five Hundred Yards
XVIII Lodging for Two
XIX The Honor of the Service
XX When Spring Came Back
XXI Path of the Avalanche
XXII The Man-Trap
XXIII Fair Warning
XXIV A Hard-Won Promise
XXV A Voluntary Prisoner
XXVI Man and Woman
XXVII The Faltering Faith
XXVIII The Escape
XXIX The Blazed Road
XXX Dangerous Waters
XXXI Ill-Favored Company
XXXII Copperhead
XXXIII High Stakes
XXXIV Gamblers' Oaths
XXXV Hazard of the Game
XXXVI The Grim Accounting
XXXVII News from Outside
XXXVIII The Greatest Gift
XXXIX You Never Can Tell
THE LONG PATROL
Near the foot of the valley slope lay an inanimate,drab-colored object of some sort, barely defined againstthe smooth sweep of the snowy mountainside. From thewooded ridge above, it appeared as a faint speck uponthe panorama of w