Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 124

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This serial installment, authored by Francis Johnson, opens with frontier justice in 1880s Arkansas. A secret vigilante organization called the "Regulators" assembles at Farmer Bowitt's house to address two unsolved murders and organized horse theft plaguing early settlers. A part-Indian, part-French Canadian stranger arrives seeking stolen horses and receives aid from the Regulators' members Brown and Jones. However, Brown suspects the Canadian is an accomplice of the criminal band itself. As the assembly convenes to formally commit to "lynch-law" enforcement, Brown and his associates plot against the suspected infiltrator while maintaining pretense of hospitality. The narrative balances frontier adventure with themes of hidden treachery and vigilante justice, moving toward conflict as Brown's doubts escalate.