Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE PRAIRIE WIFE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: I stooped over the trap-door and lifted it up. "Get down there quick!" Page 109--The Prairie Wife.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PRAIRIE WIFE By ARTHUR STRINGER With Frontispiece in Color by H. T. DUNN A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE BOBBS, MERRILL COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1915 THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1915 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO VAN WHO KNOWS AND LOVES THE WEST AS WE LOVE HIM! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS Thursday the Nineteenth 1 Saturday the Twenty-first 16 Monday the Twenty-third 33 Wednesday the Twenty-fifth 41 Thursday the Twenty-sixth 48 Saturday the Twenty-eighth 57 Wednesday the First 61 Thursday the Second 64 Friday the Third 67 Saturday the Fourth 68 Monday the Sixth 73 Wednesday the Eighth 80 Saturday the Tenth 88 Sunday the Eleventh 91 Monday the Twelfth 93 Sunday the Eighteenth 101 Monday the Nineteenth 103 Tuesday the Twentieth 105 Thursday the Twenty-second 115 Saturday the Twenty-fourth 119 Tuesday the Twenty-seventh 128 Thursday the Twenty-ninth 133 Friday the Fifth 136 Sunday the Seventh 137 Tuesday the Ninth 138 Saturday the Twenty-first 142 Sunday the Twenty-ninth 150 Monday the Seventh 152 Friday the Eleventh 153 Sunday the Thirteenth 155 Wednesday the Sixteenth 156 Sunday the Twentieth 157 Sunday the Twenty-seventh 158 Wednesday the Thirtieth 159 Thursday the Thirty-first 160 Sunday the Third 167 Thursday the Seventh 171 Saturday the Ninth 172 Monday the Eleventh 175 Tuesday the Nineteenth 182