MAN-SIZE BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE AUTHOR OF THE BIG-TOWN ROUND UP, OH, YOU TEX! ETC 1922 TO CAPTAIN SIR CECIL E. DENNY, BART. OF THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED RIDERS OF THE PLAINS WHO CARRIED LAW INTO THE LONE LANDS AND MADE THE SCARLET AND GOLD A SYNONYM FOR JUSTICE, INTEGRITY, AND INDOMITABLE PLUCK CONTENTS I. IN THE DANGER ZONE II. THE AMAZON III. ANGUS McRAE DOES HIS DUTY IV. THE WOLFERS V. MORSE JUMPS UP TROUBLE VI. "SOMETHING ABOUT THESE GUYS" VII. THE MAN IN THE SCARLET JACKET VIII. AT SWEET WATER CREEK IX. TOM MAKES A COLLECTION X. A CAMP-FIRE TALE XI. C.N. MORSE TURNS OVER A LEAF XII. TOM DUCKS TROUBLE XIII. THE CONSTABLE BORES THROUGH DIFFICULTIES XIV. SCARLET-COATS IN ACTION XV. KISSING DAY XVI. A BUSINESS DEAL XVII. A BOARD CREAKS XVIII. A GUN ROARS XIX. "D' YOU WONDER SHE HATES ME?" XX. ONISTAH READS SIGN XXI. ON THE FRONTIER OF DESPAIR XXII. "MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW" XXIII. A FORETASTE OF HELL XXIV. WEST MAKES A DECISION XXV. FOR THE WEE LAMB LOST XXVI. A RESCUE XXVII. APACHE STUFF XXVIII. "IS A' WELL WI' YOU, LASS?" XXIX. NOT GOING ALONE XXX. "M" FOR MORSE XXXI. THE LONG TRAIL XXXII. A PICTURE IN A LOCKET XXXIII. INTO THE LONE LAND XXXIV. THE MAN-HUNTERS READ SIGN XXXV. SNOW-BLIND XXXVI. THE WILD BEAST LEAPS XXXVII. NEAR THE END OF A LONG CROOKED TRAIL XXXVIII. OVER A ROTTING TRAIL XXXIX. A CREE RUNNER BRINGS NEWS XL. "MALBROUCK S'EN VA-T-EN GUERRE" XLI. SENSE AND NONSENSE XLII. THE IMPERATIVE URGE CHAPTER I IN THE DANGER ZONE She stood on the crown of the hill, silhouetted against a sky-line of deepest blue. Already the sun was sinking in a crotch of the plains which rolled to the horizon edge like waves of a great land sea. Its reflected fires were in her dark, stormy eyes. Its long, slanted rays were a spotlight for the tall, slim figure, straight as that of a boy. The girl's gaze was fastened on a wisp of smoke rising lazily from a hollow of the crumpled hills. That floating film told of a camp-fire of buffalo chips. There was a little knitted frown of worry on her forehead, for imagination could fill in details of what the coulée held: the white canvas tops of prairie schooners, some spans of oxen grazing near, a group of blatant, profane whiskey-smugglers from Montana, and in the wagons a cargo of liquor to debauch the Bloods and Piegans near Fort Whoop-Up.