THE JONAH 271 XXXII. LAZYING ALONG 283 XXXIII. THIRTY-SIX 289 XXXIV. THE TRAIL MAKER 298 XXXV. IN THE BEGINNING 307 XXXVI. ROLL ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES! 312 XXXVII. ABILENE 318 XXXVIII. ALAMO ARRIVES 334 XXXIX. THE WOMAN 344 XL. MR. RUDABAUGH APPEARS 353 XLI. EASTERN CAPITAL 359 XLII. TWENTY STRAIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE 365 XLIII. LOU GORE 377 XLIV. THE LOST SCRIP 386 XLV. THE MAN HUNT 390 XLVI. FAIR EXCHANGE 402 XLVII. THE COURT OF THE COMANCHES 406 XLVIII. THE GREAT LODESTONE 417 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. LOIS WILSON AS TAISIE LOCKHART. 2. “JIM, WE’VE GOT TO DRIVE OUR HERDS NORTH.” 3. TAISIE INVITES THE MYSTERIOUS McMASTERS IN. 4. “WHAT ARE YOU—FRIEND OR FOE?” DEMANDS JIM NABOURS. 5. PREPARING TO DRIVE THE LONGHORNS ACROSS THE RIVER. 6. IN THE MIDST OF THE RIVER CROSSING. 7. RUDABAUGH (NOAH BEERY) AND DAN McMASTERS (JACK HOLT). 8. “HANDS OFF, RUDABAUGH!” ROARS BIG JIM. North of 36 CHAPTER I IN THE MORNING “MEN——” Taisie meant to say “Good morning, men,” as usually she did if she came to the cook house door before they had finished breakfast. But this morning she hesitated, halted. There had been the usual mealtime silence of the cattle hands, broken only by rasp or chatter of steel on tin; but as the tall girl’s shadow fell at the door of the log house Jim Nabours, foreman of Del Sol, rose at his place. Fifteen other men pushed back their chairs nervously, staring at the boss as though caught in some overt criminal act. In the occupation of eating a regulation breakfast of beef and beans, cattle hands, time out of mind, have asked no aid and invited no company.