Young Wild West Weekly No. 740

# Young Wild West's Double Danger: The Sign of the Secret Seven

This installment of Wild West Weekly presents the opening chapters of "Young Wild West's Double Danger; or, The Sign of the Secret Seven," credited to "An Old Scout." The story follows Albert and Maud Carey, recently orphaned siblings from Indianapolis, as they travel by horseback from Deadwood to Weston in the Black Hills. They discover a murdered man on the trail marked with a mysterious calling card—a skull with seven knives beneath it—and encounter a well-mannered but treacherous road agent who robs them and attempts to assault Maud. Rescue arrives with Young Wild West, a skilled frontiersman mounted on a sorrel stallion, who shoots the revolver from the robber's hand. The narrative establishes a mystery centering on the "Secret Seven" organization and introduces Wild West and his female companion, introducing themes of lawlessness, peril, and frontier vigilante justice.