A BORDER RUFFIAN.

By Thomas A. Janvier

Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers

CONTENTS

I.—WEST.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

II.—EAST.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

I.—WEST.

The Incident of the Boston Young Lady, the Commercial Traveller, and the Desperado.

I.

Throughout the whole of the habitable globe there nowhere is to be found more delightful or more invigorating air than that which every traveller through New Mexico, from Albuquerque, past Las Vegas, to the Raton Mountains, is free to breathe.

Miss Grace Winthrop, of Boston, and also Miss Winthrop, her paternal aunt, and also Mr. Hutchinson Port, of Philadelphia, her maternal uncle—all of whom were but forty hours removed from the Alkali Desert west of the Continental Divide—felt in the very depths of their several beings how entirely good this air was; and, as their several natures moved them, they betrayed their lively appreciation of its excellence.

Miss Grace Winthrop, having contrived for herself, with the intelligent assistance of the porter, a most comfortable nest of pillows, suffered her novel to remain forgotten upon her knees; and, as