Produced by Carlos Colón, University of California and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Small uppercase have been replaced with regular uppercase. Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. [Illustration: THE BAR-20 THREE] THE BAR-20 THREE BY CLARENCE E. MULFORD AUTHOR OF _"Johnny Nelson," "Hopalong Cassidy," "Bar-20 Days," "Buck Peters, Ranchman," "The Man from Bar-20," "Bar-20," "The Coming of Cassidy," etc._ [Illustration] FRONTISPIECE BY FRANK E. SCHOONOVER A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with A. C. McClurg & Co. Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1921 Published April, 1921 _Copyrighted in Great Britain_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I "Put a 'T' in It" 1 II Well-Known Strangers 17 III A Question of Identity 28 IV A Journey Continued 49 V What the Storm Hid 66 VI The Writing on the Wall 82 VII The Third Man 89 VIII Notes Compared 103 IX Ways of Serving Notice 114 X Twice in the Same Place 126 XI A Job Well Done 133 XII Friends on the Outside 140 XIII Out and Away 160 XIV The Staked Plain 178 XV Discoveries 198 XVI A Vigil Rewarded 223 XVII A Well-Planned Raid 242 XVIII The Trail-Boss Tries His Way 254 XIX A Desert Secret 260 XX The Redoubt Falls 277 XXI All Wrapped Up 287 XXII The Bonfire 310 XXIII Surprise Valley 324 XXIV Squared Up All Around 344 The Bar-20 Three CHAPTER I "PUT A 'T' IN IT"