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Title: Burned Bridges

Author: Bertrand W. Sinclair

Release Date: August 19, 2005 [eBook #16553]

Language: English

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BURNED BRIDGES

by

BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Author of North of Fifty-Three, etc.

Frontispiece by Ralph P. Coleman

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Published, August, 1919
Reprinted, September, 1919
Reprinted, October, 1919
Reprinted, November, 1919
Reprinted, February, 1920

[Illustration: He felt with an odd exaltation the quick hammer of her
heart against his breast. Frontispiece. _See page 95._]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I The First Problem 1

II The Man and His Mission 14

III The Deserted Cabin 24

IV In Which Mr. Thompson Begins to Wonder Painfully 37

V Further Acquaintance 46

VI Certain Perplexities 60

VII A Slip of the Axe 80

VIII --And the Fruits Thereof 86

IX Universal Attributes 93

X The Way of a Maid with a Man 102

XI A Man's Job for a Minister 111

XII A Fortune and a Flitting 123

XIII Partners 139

XIV The Restless Foot 150

XV The World Is Small 158

XVI A Meeting by the Way 168

XVII The Reproof Courteous (?)