THE HONORABLE SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH

"He's taken our retainer!" snapped the vice-president

THE HONORABLE

SENATOR SAGE-BRUSH

BY

FRANCIS LYNDE

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK : : : : : 1913

Copyright, 1913, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published September, 1913

TO MR. GEORGE ADY

My Regius Professor in the School of Western Railroading, and himself a keen observer, in situ, of the conditions which I have herein sought to portray, this book is most affectionately inscribed.

The Author.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I, Because Patricia Said "No"
CHAPTER II, The Boss
CHAPTER III, The Highbinders
CHAPTER IV, A False Gallop of Memories
CHAPTER V, At Wartrace Hall
CHAPTER VI, On the Wing of Occasions
CHAPTER VII, A Battle Royal
CHAPTER VIII, The Queen's Gambit
CHAPTER IX, The Rank and File
CHAPTER X, In the Herbarium
CHAPTER XI, The Great Game
CHAPTER XII, A Well-Spring in the Desert
CHAPTER XIII, The Liegeman
CHAPTER XIV, Barriers Invisible
CHAPTER XV, Sword-Play
CHAPTER XVI, The Safe-Blower
CHAPTER XVII, On the Knees of the High Gods
CHAPTER XVIII, The Chasm
CHAPTER XIX, A Cog in the Wheel
CHAPTER XX, A Stone for Bread
CHAPTER XXI, The Under-Dog
CHAPTER XXII, The Iconoclast
CHAPTER XXIII, A Cry in the Night
CHAPTER XXIV, Field Headquarters
CHAPTER XXV, Blood and Iron
CHAPTER XXVI, Apples of Gold
CHAPTER XXVII, In Which Patricia Drives
CHAPTER XXVIII, The Gossiping Wires
CHAPTER XXIX, At Shonoho Inn
CHAPTER XXX, The Reckoning
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