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Title: Prescott of Saskatchewan

Author: Harold Bindloss

Illustrator: W. Herbert Dunton

Release Date: June 28, 2008 [EBook #25916]

Language: English

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PRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWAN

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[Illustration: "IT SEEMED PRUDENT TO PLACE AS LONG A DISTANCE AS POSSIBLE
BETWEEN THEM AND THE SETTLEMENT"--Page 158]

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PRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWAN

BY
HAROLD BINDLOSS

AUTHOR OF
THE LONG PORTAGE,
RANCHING FOR SYLVIA,
WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIE, ETC.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BY
W. HERBERT DUNTON

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND UNDER THE TITLE, "THE WASTREL"

August, 1913

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. JERNYNGHAM'S HAPPY THOUGHT 1
II. MURIEL SEES THE WEST 12
III. JERNYNGHAM MAKES A DECISION 23
IV. MURIEL FEELS REGRET 35
V. THE MYSTERY OF THE MUSKEG 45
VI. A DEAL IN LAND 57
VII. THE SEARCH 67
VIII. A DAY ON THE PRAIRIE 79
IX. PRESCOTT MAKES A PROMISE 92
X. A NEW CLUE 102
XI. A REVELATION 113
XII. PRESCOTT'S FLIGHT 123
XIII. THE CONSTRUCTION CAMP 131
XIV. ON THE TRAIL 141
XV. MISS FOSTER'S ESCORT 153
XVI. THE MISSIONARY'S ALLY 168
XVII. THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS 183
XVIII. DEFEAT