JACK WILEY

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CHAPTER 1 Approximately: 11 Pages	FROM HIS lookout position on the hill, one of the men saw the patrol coming. . . .
CHAPTER 2 Approximately: 9 Pages	HE CAME to Denver on the Denver & Rio Grande, pulled by a locomotive named Montezuma. It was late afternoon on a blustery day, and he . . .
CHAPTER 3 Approximately: 12 Pages	FRANK NUGENT was an imposing figure as he strode through the big beveled-glass and brass door of the Palace Hotel. . . .
CHAPTER 4 Approximately: 6 Pages	IT HAD been a splendid night. They had eaten roast duck washed down with bottles of some of the Palace's best wine, and after dinner they . . .
CHAPTER 5 Approximately: 7 Pages	AS PURDY and Nugent cleared a rise, there was Tres Marias, visible through the mist — a jumble of lodgepole pine and plank buildings . . .
CHAPTER 6 Approximately: 6 Pages	WHEN NUGENT came into the funeral parlor, Euclid Hopper was leaning over a corpse in a wood coffin. . . .
CHAPTER 7 Approximately: 6 Pages	A LITTLE more than a mile east of Lincoln, Nebraska, Clarence Ottman was in his barn when . . .
CHAPTER 8 Approximately: 5 Pages	THEY ARRIVED promptly — Amhearst with his shiny silver star, Hopper, Watson, and Gaines. Nugent thought he could search high and low . . .
CHAPTER 9 Approximately: 6 Pages	PURDY CAME in like a friendly dog, all smiles and headbobs, and Nugent introduced him all around. . . .
CHAPTER 10 Approximately: 4 Pages	WHISKEY-EYES BRANDT had had a hard day, and it wasn't over yet. . . .
CHAPTER 11 Approximately: 14 Pages	EUCLID HOPPER met Purdy at the business door of the funeral parlor, and proudly showed him Mr. Sanders, looking very respectable in his elegant . . .
CHAPTER 12 Approximately: 12 Pages	THE NEXT day was still cold and damp with morning mist when Purdy left his room and walked over to the livery to get the sorrel. He reflected . . .
CHAPTER 13 Approximately: 11 Pages	AMHEARST AND Hopper waited in back of Amhearst's house, from where they could see Purdy ride up the hill to Nugent's place. . . .
CHAPTER 14 Approximately: 5 Pages	THE WAY down the hill from the back of Nugent's house was thickly wooded with aspens, and as Purdy threaded his way through them, the sorrel was . . .
CHAPTER 15 Approximately: 2 Pages	SOMETIMES A man just has to go into business for himself. He's driven to it. . . .
CHAPTER 16 Approximately: 8 Pages	WATSON SPENT the rest of the day thinking about Nugent's visit. It was dusk when he finally locked up the store and headed over to the Rose. . . .
CHAPTER 17 Approximately: 9 Pages	ALTHOUGH THE hour was late and he was tired, Purdy couldn't sleep. . . .
CHAPTER 18 Approximately: 6 Pages	ELLIE HOPPER opened up the firebox of the stove and threw in another log. Bread was baking in the oven, and a big pot of good-smelling beans . . .
CHAPTER 19 Approximately: 9 Pages	BEFORE HE went to bed, Frank Nugent spent two hours rigging strings from the front and back steps so if anybody stepped on them, the strings . . .
CHAPTER 20 Approximately: 3 Pages	FIRES FLARED outside the tents and shacks that lined the river as the mining camp came alive a little before dawn. . . .
CHAPTER 21 Approximately: 4 Pages	THE BUILDING on Wazee Street was one of many warehouses that had been hurriedly thrown up in Denver. The cheap bricks were already cracked in . . .
CHAPTER 22 Approximately: 8 Pages	IT WAS late afternoon. The gray day had darkened and lamps were already lit. Tom Amhearst pushed open the door to the First Bank of the Platte . . .
CHAPTER 23 Approximately: 2 Pages	THE MINERS Pike had recruited were better than Purdy hoped. . . .
CHAPTER 24 Approximately: 10 Pages	CHARLIE LYDECKER had been a bartender at the Rose for four months, and he was a man who knew how to keep his eyes open. . . .
CHAPTER 25 Approximately: 7 Pages	WHEN THEY heard the shooting start at Nugent's place, Amhearst and Hopper were elated. "He's done it!" Hopper said. . . .
CHAPTER 26 Approximately: 12 Pages	PURDY, BEEME, and Pike were standing among the trees at the base of the hill behind Nugent's place. . . .
CHAPTER 27 Approximately: 10 Pages	THEY WALKED down the hill, keeping their distance from one another just in case there was somebody down there that might take a shot at them. . . .
CHAPTER 28 Approximately: 9 Pages	AS SOON as Purdy saw Travis on the floor, and Ellie holding Hopper's body, he knew that the rider they had just seen was Amhearst. . . .
CHAPTER 29 Approximately: 5 Pages	DEPUTY MARSHAL Asa Brandt was a big man with graying hair combed straight back. . . .
CHAPTER 30 Approximately: 6 Pages	WEITNAUR'S HOUSE was built in the shade of a huge old cottonwood by a stream about three miles east of Denver. . . .
CHAPTER 31 Approximately: 7 Pages	WHISKEY-EYES BRANDT followed the same strategy as Purdy, riding about a quarter of a mile past the house, then doubling back along the creek bed . . .

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