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Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 567

1889 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle & Adams contains the opening installments of "The Road-Knight's Plot: A Romance of the Cony Flat Rivals," authored by Philip S. Warne. The serial follows a mysterious traveler journeying through the Rocky Mountains near Cony Flat, where he overhears stage-driver Billy Boston discussing the notorious outlaw Captain Midnight and an associate named Belle Blackwood. The story then shifts to a lakeside scene where a young woman named Octavia Marquardt encounters Nick Rathbun, a man pursuing her romantically despite her refusal. Rathbun reveals he knows her brother is hiding nearby and pressures her with declarations of love and family standing, threatening to betray her brother if she refuses his advances. The narrative establishes themes of romantic coercion, hidden identities, and frontier danger.

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