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Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 594

1890 · Free to read

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About this issue

This serialized melodrama by Albert W. Aiken follows a cloaked, supernatural-seeming figure in Hell's Canyon, Colorado, who meets a young messenger boy exchanging letters using the password "Vengeance." The figure, later revealed as a muscular young man with an eerie immobile, glowing white face—Fire Face, the Mysterious Highwayman—receives word that a target will cross the mountains that night. The narrative shifts to Sing Sing Prison, where a wealthy Colorado millionaire named Lawrence Pendragon visits the warden bearing a mysterious letter from a political boss. Pendragon inquires about convict number 1,010, prompting the warden to consult the prison register. The work blends Western frontier adventure with supernatural suspense elements and hints at criminal intrigue involving Pendragon's connection to the imprisoned convict.

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