THE RAMRODDERS RAMPANT
XX. A GIRL'S HEART
XXI. STARTING A MULE TEAM
XXII. FROM THE MOUTH OF A MAID
XXIII. A TRUCE
XXIV. A GOVERNOR AND A MAID
XXV. WOMEN, AND ONE WOMAN
XXVI. THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAID
XXVII. THE EVERLASTING PROBLEM
XXVIII. ONE PROBLEM SOLVED
THE RAMRODDERS
CHAPTER I
THE BAITING OF THE ANCIENT LION
War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of Fort
Canibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidly
faced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancient
blockhouse, relic of the "Bloodless War," and upon the structure that
Thelismer Thornton had converted from officers' barracks to his own uses
as a dwelling.
At dawn a telegraph messenger jangled the bell in the dim hall of "The
Barracks." It was an urgent cry from the chairman of the Republican
State Committee. It announced his coming, and warned the autocrat of the
North Country of the plot. The chairman knew.
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