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      The titles given in the Table of Contents for Chapters VII
      and VIII differ from the chapter titles used in the text.





THE FREE RANGE

by

ELWELL LAWRENCE

Illustrations by Douglas Duer







[Illustration: They rode needlessly close together and swung their
clasped hands like happy children.]



Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers :: New York

Copyright 1913 by
W. J. Watt & Company

Published June




To MATHEW WHITE Jr.,
Editor, author, critic, friend.




CONTENTS

CHAPTER                               PAGE
      I  Flinging The Gauntlet           9
     II  A Late Arrival                 18
    III  An Unsettled Score             31
     IV  The Six Pistol Shots           39
      V  Strategy and a Surprise        50
     VI  Ugly Company                   64
    VII  You Have Forgotten The Mask    74
   VIII  Fiendish Revenge               85
     IX  The Man in The Mask            98
      X  War Without Quarter           114
     XI  Made Prisoner                 124
    XII  Juliet Asserts