Beadle's Pocket Library No. 373

# Larry O'Lynn's Dash

This issue contains the opening installment of "Larry O'Lynn's Dash" by Jos. F. Henderson, a frontier adventure serial set on the American prairie. The story centers on Alfred Grey's secluded log cabin by a lake, where his seventeen-year-old daughter Adalyn—called "Lily of the Lake" by local Indians—is captured by Pawnee raiders. Larry O'Lynn, Grey's Irish servant, attempts to defend her but wounds only one attacker before the raiders escape with Adalyn. Captain Roger Wayne of the mounted rangers arrives to warn of Pawnee activity but learns the abduction has already occurred. Wayne reveals suspicion that a white renegade named Kyle Bernard (whom Grey calls Conrad) led the attack. Wayne confesses his love for Adalyn and proposes helping recover her, though Grey angrily rejects his overtures. The narrative combines frontier captivity themes with romantic conflict.