The SHERIFF OF BADGER

A TALE OF THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLAND

BY GEORGE PATTULLO

ILLUSTRATED

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON: MCMXII

Copyright, 1912, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Copyright, 1909, 1911, by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Street and Smith
Copyright, 1910, by the Pearson Publishing Company
>Published June, 1912
Printed in the United States of America

Acknowledgments are due to The Saturday Evening Post, Pearson's Magazine and The Popular Magazine for permission to use some of the material in this book.

TO
A. W. BALLANTYNE

The Sheriff of Badger

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Lafe Johnson Arrives at Lazy L Ranch
CHAPTER II. Certain Complications Result
CHAPTER III. Concerning a Baby's Wail
CHAPTER IV. Out of a Job
CHAPTER V. An Incipient Love Affair
CHAPTER VI. Discomfiture of a Gunfighter
CHAPTER VII. Johnson is Elected Sheriff of Badger
CHAPTER VIII. A Feud and What Came of It
CHAPTER IX. An Inquest and a Surprise
CHAPTER X. A Journey To Satan's Kingdom
CHAPTER XI. A Waitress to the Rescue
CHAPTER XII. The Sheriff Settles a Conjugal Dispute
CHAPTER XIII. And Hetty Comes to Badger to Live
CHAPTER XIV. The Sheriff Ensnared
CHAPTER XV. How He Won a Wife
CHAPTER XVI. The Gunfighter Returns and Delays Wedding
CHAPTER XVII. Johnson Meets a Friend of Hetty's
CHAPTER XVIII. A Sacrifice and Its Punishment
CHAPTER XIX. Buffalo Jim Gives Wise Counsel
CHAPTER XX. The Sheriff Purges Town of Badger
CHAPTER XXI. A Fight in the Dark
CHAPTER XXII. Capture of Moffatt, the Gunman
CHAPTER XXIII. The Wedding
CHAPTER XXIV. The Bride is Lost
CHAPTER XXV. Johnson Becomes Boss of the Anvil
CHAPTER XXVI. Enters Trouble
CHAPTER XXVII. A Clever Woman and a Misunderstanding
CHAPTER XXVIII. Reconciliation—Mrs. Vining Experiences a Change of Heart
CHAPTER XXIX. Lafe Helps a Deserter
CHAPTER XXX. And Discovers Hetty's Brother
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