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THE STRANGE RIDER. “Bah! for my part, I believe it sheer nonsense—nothing but a hoax.” “So said I until lately; but now I know there is something in it.” The sentences just noted were spoken in very…
THE LOTTERY OF DEATH. Other events were occurring upon that same night, that now claim our attention. A small timber island that stood close beside the stream before spoken of as running near the hun…
THE MIDNIGHT CONFLICT. A strange fear filled the breast of the young hunter, Ned Campbell, as he dashed away over the prairie, his eyes riveted upon the point where he had last seen his friend in hot…
THE BARANCA MYSTERY. It was a bitter blow to the Night-Hawk leader, Jasper Morton, to see his long-worked-for revenge thus snatched from his very grasp, just as the game seemed entirely in his own ha…
THE MAIDEN’S PERIL. Over a week had passed by since the night on which this story opened, a week during which much had been done though little effected. Early in the day following the house-burning, …
THE LOST TRAIL. With the dawn of day, Archibald Hawksley emerged from the house, and set about his morning duties. Though he noticed the door was unbarred, he thought Fanny had forgot to secure it. B…
ON GUARD. Ned Campbell sat his horse with an air of irresolution. For a moment he appeared at a loss what course to pursue. He glanced quickly around him. The black column of smoke had disappeared. E…
AT BAY. When he left Ned Campbell, Albert Mestayer entered the first chamber or cell, where we a week previously to this date, found him bending over the wounded leader of the Night Hawks. Here that …
A STRANGE PROPOSAL. The hours dragged by drearily enough with Ned Campbell, though for a part of the time he had the beautiful Lola for a guard. But after the first flush of surprise, Ned gave her li…
THE CLEW. Though Chigilli, the Kiowa chief, had acted so promptly in dispatching a runner for reinforcements, that fact was likely to avail him little, for the movements of the settlers were prompt a…
