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The Death Shot

by Mayne Reid

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Prologue
  3. 3Chapter One — Two Sorts of Slave-Owners
  4. 4Chapter Two — A Flat Refusal
  5. 5Chapter Three — A Forest Post-Office
  6. 6Chapter Four — Two Good Girls
  7. 7Chapter Five — A Photograph in the Forest
  8. 8Chapter Six — A Coon-Chase Interrupted
  9. 9Chapter Seven — Murder Without Remorse
  10. 10Chapter Eight — The Coon-Hunter Cautious
  11. 11Chapter Nine — An Assassin in Retreat
  12. 12Chapter Ten — The Eve of Departure
  13. 13Chapter Eleven — Under the Trysting Tree
  14. 14Chapter Twelve — The Wrong Man
  15. 15Chapter Thirteen — The Coon-Hunter at Home
  16. 16Chapter Fourteen — Why Comes He Not?
  17. 17Chapter Fifteen — A Moonlight Moving
  18. 18Chapter Sixteen — What Has Become of Clancy?
  19. 19Chapter Seventeen — A Bullet Extracted
  20. 20Chapter Eighteen — “To the Sheriff!”
  21. 21Chapter Nineteen — The “Belle of Natchez”
  22. 22Chapter Twenty — Saved by a Sister
  23. 23Chapter Twenty One — Seized by Spectral Arms
  24. 24Chapter Twenty Two — Up and Down
  25. 25Chapter Twenty Three — The Sleep of the Assassin
  26. 26Chapter Twenty Four — The Coon-Hunter Conscience-Stricken
  27. 27Chapter Twenty Five — An Unceremonious Search
  28. 28Chapter Twenty Six — Tell-tale Tracks
  29. 29Chapter Twenty Seven — Additional Evidence
  30. 30Chapter Twenty Eight — “To the Jail!”
  31. 31Chapter Twenty Nine — A Scheme of Colonisation
  32. 32Chapter Thirty — News From Natchez
  33. 33Chapter Thirty One — Spectres in the Street
  34. 34Chapter Thirty Two — The “Choctaw Chief”
  35. 35Chapter Thirty Three — The Murderer Unmasked
  36. 36Chapter Thirty Four — “Will You Be One of Us?”
  37. 37Chapter Thirty Five — A Ghost Going Its Rounds
  38. 38Chapter Thirty Six — “She Is True — Still True!”
  39. 39Chapter Thirty Seven — The Home of the Hunted Slave
  40. 40Chapter Thirty Eight — An Excursion by Canoe
  41. 41Chapter Thirty Nine — Is It a Corpse?
  42. 42Chapter Forty — “Across the Sabine”
  43. 43Chapter Forty One — A Repentant Sinner
  44. 44Chapter Forty Two — The Prairie Caravan
  45. 45Chapter Forty Three — The Hand of God
  46. 46Chapter Forty Four — A Cloud on the Cliffs
  47. 47Chapter Forty Five — A Suspicious Surveillance
  48. 48Chapter Forty Six — A Suspected Servant
  49. 49Chapter Forty Seven — Opposite Emblems
  50. 50Chapter Forty Eight — A Blank Day
  51. 51Chapter Forty Nine — Waiting the Word
  52. 52Chapter Fifty — An Uncanny Skulker
  53. 53Chapter Fifty One — Locked in
  54. 54Chapter Fifty Two — Massacre Without Mercy
  55. 55Chapter Fifty Three — A Horrid Spectacle
  56. 56Chapter Fifty Four — Riding Double
  57. 57Chapter Fifty Five — Tired Travellers
  58. 58Chapter Fifty Six — Spectral Equestrians
  59. 59Chapter Fifty Seven — Planning a Capture
  60. 60Chapter Fifty Eight — Across the Ford
  61. 61Chapter Fifty Nine — A Foiled Ambuscade
  62. 62Chapter Sixty — “The Live-Oak”
  63. 63Chapter Sixty One
  64. 64Chapter Sixty Two
  65. 65Chapter Sixty Three
  66. 66Chapter Sixty Four
  67. 67Chapter Sixty Five
  68. 68Chapter Sixty Six
  69. 69Chapter Sixty Seven
  70. 70Chapter Sixty Eight
  71. 71Chapter Sixty Nine
  72. 72Chapter Seventy — Surrounded and Disarmed
  73. 73Chapter Seventy One
  74. 74Chapter Seventy Two
  75. 75Chapter Seventy Three
  76. 76Chapter Seventy Four
  77. 77Chapter Seventy Five
  78. 78Chapter Seventy Six
  79. 79Chapter Seventy Seven
  80. 80Chapter Seventy Eight
  81. 81Chapter Seventy Nine
  82. 82Chapter Eighty — A Resurrectionist
  83. 83Chapter Eighty One
  84. 84Chapter Eighty Two
  85. 85Chapter Eighty Three
  86. 86Chapter Eighty Four
  87. 87Chapter Eighty Five
  88. 88Chapter Eighty Six
  89. 89Chapter Eighty Seven

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