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Title: Masters of the Wheat-Lands

Author: Harold Bindloss

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MASTERS OF THE WHEAT-LANDS

by

HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of "Thurston of Orchard Valley," "By Right of
Purchase," "Lorimer of the Northwest," etc.

With Four Illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo

[Illustration: "IT'S GOING TO HURT, GREGORY, BUT I HAVE GOT TO GET YOU
IN"--Page 17]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers :: New York

All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1910, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
Published in England Under the Title, "Hawtrey's Deputy"
October, 1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Sally Creighton 1
II. Sally Takes Charge 11
III. Wyllard Assents 22
IV. A Crisis 33
V. The Old Country 44
VI. Her Picture 55
VII. Agatha Does Not Flinch 66
VIII. The Traveling Companion 78
IX. The Fog 92
X. Disillusion 104
XI. Agatha's Decision 117
XII. Wanderers 130
XIII. The Summons 143
XIV. Agatha Proves Obdurate 154
XV. The Beach 165
XVI. The First Ice 177
XVII. Defeat 187
XVIII. A Delicate Errand 199
XIX. The Prior Clai