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Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 763

1892 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of the Beadle and Adams dime novel series (No. 763, March 8, 1892) contains "The Fiery Hand of Fate" by William G. Patten, a serial melodrama in two chapters. Chapter I depicts a wealthy seducer in uptown New York callously abandoning his young mistress, revealing he has murdered her brother and will flee the city. After he leaves her unconscious, she is rescued from suicide by a sympathetic policeman and vows vengeance. Chapter II shifts to Arizona's Eighty Mile Desert, where a determined horseman pursues three travelers—two men and a girl—across the wasteland despite warnings of certain death. The narrative weaves urban seduction drama with Western frontier adventure, emphasizing the protagonist's desperate quest across dangerous terrain.

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