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Ridgway of Montana

A story of to-day,
in which the hero is also the villain

by William Macleod Raine

To JEAN
AND THAT KINGDOM

“Where you and I through this world’s weather
Work, and give praise and thanks together.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Two Men and a Woman
CHAPTER II. The Freebooter
CHAPTER III. One to One
CHAPTER IV. Fort Salvation
CHAPTER V. Enter Simon Harley
CHAPTER VI. On the Snow-trail
CHAPTER VII. Back from Arcadia
CHAPTER VIII. The Honorable Thomas B. Pelton
CHAPTER IX. An Evening Call
CHAPTER X. Harley Makes a Proposition
CHAPTER XI. Virginia Intervenes
CHAPTER XII. Aline Makes a Discovery
CHAPTER XIII. First Blood
CHAPTER XIV. A Conspiracy
CHAPTER XV. Laska Opens a Door
CHAPTER XVI. An Explosion in the Taurus
CHAPTER XVII. The Election
CHAPTER XVIII. Further Developments
CHAPTER XIX. One Million Dollars
CHAPTER XX. A Little Lunch at Alphonse’s
CHAPTER XXI. Harley Scores
CHAPTER XXII. “Not Guilty”—“Guilty”
CHAPTER XXIII. Aline Turns a Corner
CHAPTER XXIV. A Good Samaritan
CHAPTER XXV. Friendly Enemies
CHAPTER XXVI. Breaks One and Makes Another Engagement

CHAPTER I.
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN

“Mr. Ridgway, ma’am.”

The young woman who was giving the last touches to the very effective pictureframed in her long looking-glass nodded almost imperceptibly.

She had come to the parting of the ways, and she knew it, with a shrewdsuspicion as to which she would choose. She had asked for a week to decide, andher heart-searching had told her nothing new. It was characteristic of VirginiaBalfour that she did not attempt to deceive herself. If she married WaringRidgway it would be for what she considered good and sufficient reasons, butlove would not be one of them.

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