Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Randerson watches the newcomers [Page 2]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE RANGE BOSS BY CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER AUTHOR OF THE BOSS OF THE LAZY Y, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK E. SCHOONOVER NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1916 ------ Published September, 1916 ------ Copyrighted in Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I At Calamity Crossing 1 II The Sympathetic Rescuer 12 III At the Flying W 33 IV A Memory of the Rider 42 V Love vs. Business 56 VI A Man and His Job 65 VII How an Insult Was Avenged 78 VIII What Uncle Jepson Heard 97 IX "Somethin's Gone Out of Them" 104 X The Law of the Primitive 111 XI Hagar's Eyes 130 XII The Rustlers 143 XIII The Fight 160 XIV The Rock and the Moonlight 166 XV The Runaway Comes Home 184 XVI Two Are Taught Lessons 188 XVII The Target 202 XVIII The Gunfighter 217 XIX Ready Gun and Clean Heart 233 XX The Bubble--Dreams 245 XXI One Too Many 254 XXII Into Which a Girl's Trouble Comes 265 XXIII Banishing a Shadow 278 XXIV Realizing a Passion 291 XXV A Man Is Born Again 313 XXVI A Dream Comes True 328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ILLUSTRATIONS