



Produced by Al Haines








[Illustration: Cover art]



ARIZONA ARGONAUTS




[Frontispiece: (gunman and horse)]




  ARIZONA ARGONAUTS


  BY

  H. BEDFORD-JONES



  GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
  GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
  1924




  COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
  DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
  AT
  THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.




  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER

  I. Two Palms
  II. Shipwrecked Men
  III. Bill Hobbs Arrives
  IV. Sandy Invests Twice
  V. Clairedelune
  VI. Deadoak Feels Remorse
  VII. Stung!
  VIII. Doctor Scudder
  IX. The News Story
  X. Flight
  XI. The Sun Strikes
  XII. Scudder Comes
  XIII. Untangled




ARIZONA ARGONAUTS



CHAPTER I

TWO PALMS

Piute Tompkins, sole owner and proprietor of what used to be the Oasis
Saloon but was now the Two Palms House, let the front feet of his chair
fall with a bang to the porch floor and deftly shot a stream of tobacco
juice at an unfortunate lizard basking in the su