Charles Alden Seltzer
The Adventures of Drag Harlan, Beau Rand & Square Deal Sanderson - The Great Heroes of Wild West
Action, Adventure & Cowboy
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2441-8
Table of Contents
“Beau” Rand
Chapter I. A Man Spreads Poison
Chapter IV. A Woman's Perversness
Chapter VIII. A Shattered Pipe
Chapter XII. Victory — and Defeat
Chapter XIV. A Matter of Nerve
Chapter XVI. An Interlude with Cupid
Chapter XVIII. The Riddle of Rand
Chapter XX. "Liars — and Liars"
Chapter XXIII. A New Riding Companion
Chapter XXIV. Picking a Leader
Chapter XXV. Rand's Blazing Wrath
Chapter XXVI. The Yearning for Vengeance
Chapter XXVII. The Markings of Midnight
Chapter XXX. Carrying the News
Chapter XXXII. Lucia's Revenge
Chapter XXXIII. Faithful Unto Death
Chapter XXXIV. A Man in a Doorway
Chapter XXXV. The Grim Accounting
Chapter XXXVI. In Paths of Peace
Chapter I. A Man Spreads Poison
STANDING, though resting one shoulder against a door-jamb of the bunkhouse, Amos Seddon watched his daughter. The shoulder that rested against the door-jamb was slightly drooped, the left arm hanging limply: the thumb of the right hand was hooked in the cartridge belt that encircled Seddon's waist. That hand, too, was limp, and there was a glum pout on the man's lips.
His thoughts were not pleasant, for they ran to Beaudry Rand, his neighbor, with a virulent savagery that made him ache to use the gun, whose stock lay so near to his limp fingers. Some day, he told himself, he would use the gun on Beaudry Rand.
It was not that Rand had done anything to him, particularly; he hated Rand for the things that Rand had not done. That paradox was vague and mysterious to those who did not know; but the torture of it was that Seddon feared some persons — besides Rand — did know. And there was not a time when Seddon rode into Ocate that he did not seem to feel there were many of the town's citizens who were secretly laughing at him. And he suspected that those citizens in possession of the secret were wondering why he did not take the boy from Rand.
To be sure, he had kept his affair