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BUT NOW HE HEARD A VOICE ABOVE HIM. IT WAS HER VOICE See page 353
NORTHERN LIGHTS
BY
GILBERT PARKER
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMIX
Books by GILBERT PARKER
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Northern Lights. Illustrated Post 8vo $1.50
The Weavers. IllustratedPost 8vo 1.50
The Right of Way. IllustratedPost 8vo 1.50
A Ladder of Swords. IllustratedPost 8vo 1.50
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Pierre and His People.The Pomp of the Lavilettes.
Mrs. Falchion.The Battle of the Strong.
The Trespasser.The Lane that Had No Turning.
The Translation of a Savage.Donovan Pasha.
The Trail of the Sword.Old Quebec (In collaboration with C. G. Bryan).
When Valmond Came to Pontiac.Round the Compass in Australia.
An Adventurer of the North.A Lover's Diary.
The Seats of the Mighty.Embers (Private Publication only).
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
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All rights reserved.
Published September, 1909.
TO
ISHBEL, COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN
A TRUE FRIEND
OF THE GREAT DOMINION
NOTE
The tales in this book belong to two different epochs in the life of the Far West. The first five are reminiscent of “border days and deeds”—of days before the great railway was built which changed a waste into a fertile field of civilization. The remaining stories cover the period passed since the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Pullman Car first startled the early pioneer, and sent him into the land of the farther North or drew him into the quiet circle of civic routine and humdrum occupation.
G. P.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
A Lodge in the Wilderness 1
Once at Red Man’s River 21
The Stroke of the Hour 38
Buckmaster’s Boy 57
To-Morrow 72
Qu’appelle 94
The Stake and the Plumb-Line 118
When the Swallows Homeward Fly 160
George’s Wife 174
Marcile 196
A Man, a Famine, and a Heathen Boy 216
The Healing Springs and the Pioneers 234
The Little Widow of Jansen 253
Watching The Rise of Orion 272
The Error of the Day 295
The Whisperer 314
As Deep as the Sea 334
ILLUSTRATIONS
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BUT NOW HE HEARD A VOICE ABOVE HIM. IT WAS HER VOICE Frontispiece
THE BIRD SHE HEARD IN THE NIGHT WAS CALLING IN HIS EARS NOW 14
THE START ON THE NORTH TRAIL 36
SHE SWAYED AND FELL FAINTING AT THE FEET OF BA’TISTE 56
LITTLE BY LITTLE THEY DREW TO THE EDGE OF THE ROCK 70
“THEY SHOT ME AN’ HURT ME” 74
“PAULINE,” HE SAID, FEEBLY, AND FAINTED IN HER ARMS 114
THE OLD MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD. THOUGH NOT WITH UNDERSTANDING 166
GEORGE’S WIFE 184
THEN HAD HAPPENED THE REAL EVENT OF HIS LIFE 198
THE FAITH HEALER 236
“AS PURTY A WOMAN, TOO—AS PURTY AND AS STRAIGHT BEWHILES” 256
“IF YOU KILL ME, YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM KOWATIN ALIVE” 312
FOR MINUTES THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED 332
“OH, ISN’T IT ALL WORTH LIVING?” SHE SAID 342
NORTHERN LIGHTS