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                              THE RANGER

                                  OR

                      THE FUGITIVES OF THE BORDER

                          BY EDWARD S. ELLIS

            AUTHOR OF "OONOMOO," "SET JONES," "IRONA," ETC.


NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1911,
BY
HURST & COMPANY.




[Illustration: "Hold! You strike the white man's friend!"]




CONTENTS.


       I. Zeb and his Master

      II. The Night of Terror

     III. Kent and Leslie

      IV. The Captives

       V. The Meeting on the River

      VI. The Raft

     VII. Lost and Found

    VIII. The Companion in Captivity

      IX. Zeb's Revenge

       X. The Brief Reprieve

      XI. A Friend

     XII. Escape

    XIII. The Captive

     XIV. The Rescue

      XV. The Fugitives Flying no Longer




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


"Hold! You strike the white man's friend!"

George and Rosalind

"Them varmints," said he, "are playing particular devil in these parts"

There were two horses in the party, and upon one of these Rosalind had
been placed

"Ready," whispered Leslie, "you take the nearest one."

"You shoot Indian, eh?" said one, brandishing his knife at the same time

The savages were amusing themselves by ascertaining who could send his
tomahawk nearest the body of their captive without touching him

"Does the maiden remember Pequanon?"

Two savages were left on shore

"Yonder