The Border Boys on the Trail Fermont B Deering Antique HC Novel 1911.

Copyright, 1911,

BY

HURST & COMPANY

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THE BORDER BOYS

ΟΝ ΤΗE TRAIL

By FREMONT B. DEERING

AUTHOR OF

"The Border Boys Across the Frontier," "The Border

Boys with the Mexican Rangers," "The Border

Boys with the Texas Rangers," "The Border

Boys in the Canadian Rockies," "The Border

Boys Along the St. Lawrence."

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers

New York

Printed in U. S. A.

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CONTΕNTS

CHAPTER

I. ON THE BORDER .

II. THE BOYS FIND TROUBLE .

III. A RACE FOR LIFE.

IV. THROUGH THE GREAT DARKNESS

V. THE RUSTLERS AT WORK.

VI. TAKING UP THE TRAIL .

VII. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY .

VIII. BLACK RAMON'S MISSION

IX. A MOMENTOUS INTERVIEW

X. IN THE BELL TOWER .

XI. A DROP IN THE DARK.

XII. A RIDE FOR THE HILLS. .

XIII. THE HERMIT OF THE CAÑON

XIV. TRAVELS WITH A MULE.

XV. A GATEWAY TO FREEDOM

XVI. SHORT RATIONS.

XVII. THE TALE OF A MULE.

XVIII. THE TREASURE OF THE MISSION

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CONTENTS

CHAPТER

XIX. JIM HICKS, PROSPECTOR

XX. RALPHA TRUE HERO

XXI. AT THE IRRIGATION DAM.

XXII. А ВOLT FROM THЕ BLUE .

XXIII. WITH THE RURALES. .

XXIV. THE ROUND-UP

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The Border Boys on the Trail.

СНAPTER I.

ON THE BORDER.

"Maguez! Maguez!"

The trainmen began hoarsely shouting the

curious-sounding name of the small frontier

town near the Mexican border, in the southwest

part of New Mexico. Slowly the long dust-

covered Southern Pacific express rolled impos-

ingly into "Mag-gay," very slowly, in fact, as if

it did not wish to tarry in that desolate, sun-bit-

ten portion of the continent.

As the brakes began to grind down, one of

two boys of about seventeen, who had been loung-

ing on the shady side of a forward sleeper, awoke

from a semi-doze with a start.

"Hullo! somebody wants Maggie!" exclaimed