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  THE TRAIL TO YESTERDAY

“IF YOU WANT THE PARSON TO DIE, DON’T LOOK AT ME WHEN HE STEPS IN.”

The Trail To

Yesterday

By Charles Alden Seltzer

Author of

“The Two-Gun Man,”

“The Coming of the Law,”

Etc.

With Three Illustrations

A. L. BURT COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1913, by

OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

I. A Woman on the Trail 11

II. The Dim Trail 40

III. Converging Trails 53

IV. This Picture and That 72

V. Dakota Evens a Score 88

VI. Kindred Spirits 111

VII. Bogged Down 121

VIII. Sheila Fans a Flame 146

IX. Strictly Business 163

X. Duncan Adds Two and Two 196

XI. A Parting and a Visit 215

XII. A Meeting on the River Trail 233

XIII. The Shot in the Back 254

XIV. Langford Lays Off the Mask 275

XV. The Parting on the River Trail 303

XVI. Sheriff Allen Takes a Hand 310

XVII. Doubler Talks 323

XVIII. For Dakota 336

XIX. Some Memories 344

XX. Into the Unknown 359

ILLUSTRATIONS

“If you want the parson to die, don’t look at me when he steps in.” Frontispiece

“Won’t you please get us out of this?” 134

Duncan grasped for his pistol, but the hand holding it was stamped violently into the earth. 161

THE TRAIL TO

YESTERDAY

CHAPTER I

A WOMAN ON THE TRAIL

Many disquieting thoughts oppressed Miss Sheila Langford as she halted her pony on the crest of a slight rise and swept the desolate and slumberous world with an anxious glance. Quite the most appalling of these thoughts developed from a realization of the fact that she had lost the trail. The whole categorical array of inconveniences incidental to traveling in a new, unsettled country paled into insignificance when she considered this horrifying…

  

 

  

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