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A tough guy, an evil man, and his angel daughter make fascinating bedfellows as they attempt to save a family gold mine in this intriguing tale from Max Brand. Plot twists, suspense and mystery make this story impossible to put down.
For the first moment Donnegan was not sure; it was not until there was a slight faltering in the deal--an infinitely small hesitation which only a practiced eye like that of Donnegan's could have noticed--that he was sure. The winner was crooked. Yet the hand was interesting...
The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed andfilled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at thegrade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way totalk above the noise of a freight...
For the first moment Donnegan was not sure; it was not until there was a slight faltering in the deal--an infinitely small hesitation which only a practiced eye like that of Donnegan's could have noticed--that he was sure. The winner was crooked. Yet the hand was interesting...
Gunman's Reckoning is a 1921 western by Frederick Schiller Faust which was written under the pen name Max Brand.
"It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy. Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky feeling as a man might be expected to feel when he approached to murder a sleeping...
Solitary, mysterious figure Donnegan is on the run from his past. The last thing he has time for is love. But like all matters of the heart, sometimes emotions bloom when they are least convenient - as they do the first time Donnegan encounters the kind, free-spirited Lou Macon...
Solitary, mysterious figure Donnegan is on the run from his past. The last thing he has time for is love. But like all matters of the heart, sometimes emotions bloom when they are least convenient - as they do the first time Donnegan encounters the kind, free-spirited Lou Macon...
For the first moment Donnegan was not sure; it was not until there was a slight faltering in the deal--an infinitely small hesitation which only a practiced eye like that of Donnegan's could have noticed--that he was sure. The winner was crooked. Yet the hand was interesting...