THE
STAMPEDER
BY
S. A. WHITE
ILLUSTRATED
TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1910
Copyright, Canada, 1910
by William Briggs
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Rex gazed into the rolling eyes, the wild, distorted visage of the Corsican, and felt himself shoved to the very brink of the crevasse" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
"The two teams raced side by side, the leaders snapping at each other"
"From the Indian's extended palm the yellow flash of native gold filled Britton's startled eyes"
THE STAMPEDER
CHAPTER I.
Britton's steam-yacht tore out its lungs inprotest at the black smudge of a coasting vesselreeling straight across its bows.
The siren bellowed thrice in a choking furyof warning and denunciation till the echoesboomed ov