Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 354

1885 · 24 pages

"The Brand of the Crimson Cross" by Albert W. Aiken opens this 1885 Beadle dime novel installment in a California mining camp. Richard Talbot, superintendent of the Old Hat Mining Company near Shasta Bar, awaits the arrival of his fiancée Carlotta and her father, Colonel Perkins, whose year-long probation period has expired. Carlotta arrives alone on horseback at midnight with urgent news: her father, corrupted by drink and manipulated by the villainous De Welcher, now forbids their marriage and demands she marry De Welcher instead. De Welcher has purchased controlling interest in the mine, imprisoned business partners Smith and Alleash in San Francisco, and stationed nearly forty hired gunmen throughout town. He plans to have the sheriff demand Talbot surrender the property, hoping to provoke a fatal conflict. The chapter concludes with Joe Bowers, an old vagabond companion, arriving to offer assistance against the conspiracy.

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