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CONTENTS
I THE LAST OF THE TROUBADOURS II THE SLEUTHS III
WITCHES' LOAVES IV THE PRIDE OF THE CITIES V HOLDING
UP A TRAIN VI ULYSSES AND THE DOGMAN VII THE
CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER VIII MAKES THE WHOLE
WORLD KIN IX AT ARMS WITH MORPHEUS X THE GHOST OF
A CHANCE XI JIMMIE PAYES AND MURIEL XII THE DOOR OF
UNREST XIII THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES XIV LET ME
FEEL YOUR PULSE XV OCTOBER AND JUNE XVI THE
CHURCH WITH AN OVERSHOOT WHEEL XVII NEW YORK BY
CAMPFIRE LIGHT XVIII THE ADVENTURES OF SHAMROCK
JOLNES XIX THE LADY HIGHER UP XX THE GREATER
CONEY XXI LAW AND ORDER XXII TRANSFORMATION OF
MARTIN BURNEY XXIII THE CALIPH AND THE CAD XXIV
THE DIAMOND OF KALI XXV THE DAY WE CELEBRATE

I THE LAST OF THE TROUBADOURS

Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from
the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-months' visit. It is not to be
expected that a guest should put up with wheat coffee and biscuits
yellow-streaked with saleratus for longer than that. Nick Napoleon, the
big Negro man cook, had never been able to make good biscuits: Once
before, when Nick was cooking at the Willow Ranch, Sam had been
forced to fly from his cuisine, after only a six-weeks' sojourn.
On Sam's face was an expression of sorrow, deepened with regret and
slightly tempered by the patient forgiveness of a connoisseur who
cannot be understood. But very firmly and inexorably he buckled his
saddle-cinches, looped his stake-rope and hung it to his saddle-horn,
tied his slicker and coat on the cantle, and looped his quirt on his right
wrist. The Merrydews (householders of the Rancho Altito), men,
women, children, and servants, vassals, visitors, employes, dogs, and
casual callers were grouped in the "gallery" of the ranch house, all with
faces set to the tune of melancholy and grief. For, as the coming of Sam
Galloway to any ranch, camp, or cabin between the rivers Frio or Bravo
del Norte aroused joy, so his departure caused mourning and distress.
And then, during absolute silence, except for the bumping of a hind
elbow of a hound dog as he pursued a wicked flea, Sam tenderly and
carefully tied his guitar across his saddle on top of his slicker and coat.
The guitar was in a green