Death Shot
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140
1874
English
- Prologue
- Two Sorts of Slave-Owners
- A Flat Refusal
- A Forest Post-Office
- Two Good Girls
- A Photograph in the Forest
- A Coon-Chase Interrupted
- Murder Without Remorse
- The Coon-Hunter Cautious
- An Assassin in Retreat
- The Eve of Departure
- Under the Trysting Tree
- The Wrong Man
- The Coon-Hunter at Home
- Why Comes He Not?
- A Moonlight Moving
- What Has Become of Clancy?
- A Bullet Extracted
- 'To the Sheriff'
- The Belle of 'Natchez'
- Saved by a Sister
- Seized by Spectral Arms
- Up and Down
- The Sleep of the Assassin
- The Coon-Hunter Conscience Striken
- An Unceremonious Search
- Tell-Tale Tracks
- Additional Evidence
- 'To the Jail!'
- A Scheme of Colonisation
- News From Natchez
- Spectres in the Street
- The 'Choctaw Chief'
- The Murderer Unmasked
- 'Will You be One of Us?'
- A Ghost Going its Rounds
- 'She is True--Still True!'
- The Home of the Hunted Slave
- An Excursion by Canoe
- Is it a Corpse?
- 'Across the Sabine'
- A Repentant Sinner
- The Prairie Caravan
- The Hand of God
- A Cloud on the Cliffs
- A Suspicious Surveillance
- A Suspected Servant
- Opposite Emblems
- A Blank Day
- Waiting the Word
- An Uncanny Skulker
- Locked In
- Massacre Without Mercy
- A Horrid Spectacle
- Riding Double
- Tired Travellers
- Spectral Equestrians
- Planning a Capture
- Across the Ford
- A Foiled Ambuscade
- 'The Live-Oak'
- A Ruffian Triumphant
- 'Help! Help!'
- An Oath to be Kept
- A Wild Farewell
- For the Rendezvous
- A Scouting Party
- A Straying Traveller
- 'Brasfort'
- Shadows Behind
- Surrounded and Disarmed
- A Pathless Plain
- The Prairie Stocks
- Helpless and Hopeless
- Coyote Creek
- A Transformation
- Mestizo and Mulatto
- A Strayed Traveller
- Hours of Agony
- An Unexpected Visitor
- A Resurrectionist
- The Voice of Vengeance
- A Man Nearly Mad
- At Length the 'Dead Shot'
- The Scout's Report
- A Change of Programme
- Alone With the Dead
- Hostile Cohorts
Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a gun-wound that brought him as near to death as Darke’s bullet did Clancy.
It may be asked, Why under such strain was the tale written at all? A good reason could be given; but this, private and personal, need not, and should not be intruded on the public. Suffice it to say, that, dissatisfied with the execution of the work, the author has remodelled—almost rewritten it.
It is the same story; but, as he hopes and believes, better told.
Great Malvern, September, 1874.
It may be asked, Why under such strain was the tale written at all? A good reason could be given; but this, private and personal, need not, and should not be intruded on the public. Suffice it to say, that, dissatisfied with the execution of the work, the author has remodelled—almost rewritten it.
It is the same story; but, as he hopes and believes, better told.
Great Malvern, September, 1874.
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