Beadle's Dime Library No. 490: 'The Lone Hand in Texas' — page 1: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ES ES ES LT Js — = \ i TTT ao ui F | er, SS % ,' ~ iNET ve a COPYRIGHTED IN 1888,8Y BEADLE & ADAMS. ~ ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N, Y.. Vol. XXX Published Every Geadle g¢ Adams, Dupiiaheres: Ten Cents a Copy. No 490 Wednesday. 98 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y., March 14, 1888. $5 00 a Year. Y WV GB =e —— *% Ss i/, 4 = a The Red-Gloved Raiders of the Rio Grande. A Tale of Wild Life on the South- westera Border. BY ALBERT W. AIKEN, AUTHOR OF “*THE LONE HAND,” “THE MAN FROM TEXAS,” ‘‘ OVERLAND KIT,” ‘* KENTUCK THE SPORT,” ETC. Hf / TT] Pen!) / CHAPTER I. THE BROTHERS OF THE RED HAND. Tue bright beams of the silver moon rourd as the hide-covered shield of’ the wild, red warrior —shone down on the yellow flood of the rolling Rio Grande, that stream, renowned in story, which marks the boundary line between the state of Texas and the Republic of Mexico, It was past midnight; another day had van- ished into space and a new one born. Ail along the river the god of sleep ruled LONE HAND’S INJUNCTION, EOmicbooksscom