THE
Phantom Rider;
OR,
THE GIANT CHIEF’S FATE.
A Tale of the Old Dahcotah Country.
BY MARO O. ROLFE,
Author of Pocket Novel No. 47, “The Man Hunter.”
NEW YORK.
BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS,
98 WILLIAM STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
FRANK STARR & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS
- I Vinnie’s Peril 9
- II Clancy Vere and His Trouble 14
- III Vinnie’s Stratagem 19
- IV The Phantom Warrior 25
- V The Maybob Twins 30
- VI Out in the Storm 36
- VII Over the Precipice! 41
- VIII The giant’s Story 48
- IX Lost in the Forest 56
- X A Baffled Vengeance 61
- XI A Welcome Visitor 67
- XII The Forest Rose 75
- XIII The Face at the Window 78
- XIV Vinnie a Prisoner 81
- XV What the Scouts Found 87
- XVI The Phantom Rider! 91
- XVII A Reunion of Hearts 95
- XVIII Conclusion 100
THE PHANTOM RIDER;
OR,
THE GIANT CHIEF’S FATE.
CHAPTER I.
VINNIE’S PERIL.
The scene of our story is laid in the great North-west.
It was a bleak, windy day in November. The shrill blastswailed through the forest trees like the last despairing cry ofa lost spirit, and gust after gust beat and roared around thelittle log cabin standing so silent and lonely, half buried inthe midst of the Titanic oaks that spread their long branchesprotectingly over its low roof, and whose sturdy trunks environedit, seeming to keep silent and untiring guard over itsfour rough walls.
The scene within the cabin was in striking contrast withthe wild aspect without.
It was a rude but homelike place, and despite the chinkedwalls and rough furn