The Fugitive
““The Fugitive” appeared in the issue dated July 24, 1926, under the Max Brand byline. In it Faust made use of one of his favorite themes, the good badman. And like many of Faust’s protagonists, Stephen Macdona falls outside the law, not because of anything evil in him, but rather because he had been “equipped with a resolution to do everything too much,” and because “temperance was not in him.” He is as wild in nature as his beloved horse, Christy, who is stolen from him, as is his heart, by Co...nstancia Alvarez.
Chapter 1 Like the true prodigal, Mother Nature gives freely of the things that she has by her. When they are exhausted, the next guest may have to go supperless to bed, as it were. It was in exactly this manner that she fashioned Stephen Macdona. Somewhere in the not distant past there had been a “gh” on the end of that name, but Stephen’s father had dropped it after he made a fortune in cattle. He felt that there was a distinction in the abbreviated word.MoreLess
Chapter 1 Like the true prodigal, Mother Nature gives freely of the things that she has by her. When they are exhausted, the next guest may have to go supperless to bed, as it were. It was in exactly this manner that she fashioned Stephen Macdona. Somewhere in the not distant past there had been a “gh” on the end of that name, but Stephen’s father had dropped it after he made a fortune in cattle. He felt that there was a distinction in the abbreviated word.MoreLess
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