Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
FRANK STARR & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS

I An Altercation 9

II The Storm-Cloud Breaks 19

III A Wild Race 30

IV The Forlorn Hope 34

V Delaware Tom 43

VI Tom Maxwell Turns Indian 50

VII A Tangled Trail 59

VIII Savage Tactics 68

IX Bound to the Stake 77

X The Winding Trail 83

XI Reunited 88

XII Dog Eat Dog 96

DELAWARE TOM;
OR,
THE TRAITOR GUIDE

CHAPTER I.
AN ALTERCATION.

Mid-afternoon of an oppressively hot and sultry day, inthe year ’54.

We call the reader’s attention to a scene, that, if notromantic, is at least attractive and interesting; a wagon-trainof emigrants, as is attested by the quantity of driven stock—horses,cattle and sheep. The presence of women andchildren is still further evidence.

It moved slowly and drearily along over the vast, almostbarren stretch of level plain, as though the nearly spent dayhad been one of hard and unremitting toil. The horses ormules, their heads hanging down, with drooping ears andtails, their hides damp with sweat and covered with the finesand cast upon the air by the trampling hoofs, or the slowlyrevolving wheels, scarcely heed the stinging lash or theimpatient exclamation of their drivers.

The loose stock move dejectedly along, cured of their morningpropensity of running from the trail to snatch a mouthfulof grass, or nip the tops of a bush, while more than oneof the boys, whose duty it is to keep them within properlimits, dozes in their hard saddles.

But there are three persons who appear full of life and freefrom the general weariness of mind and body. There: one ofthem a woman—a girl; the others men.

The first, who rode at several hundred yards in ad

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