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Title: Northern Lights

Author: Gilbert Parker

Release Date: October 12, 2008 [EBook #26905]

Language: English

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[Illustration: BUT NOW HE HEARD A VOICE ABOVE HIM. IT WAS
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NORTHERN LIGHTS

BY
GILBERT PARKER

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMIX

Books by
GILBERT PARKER

Northern Lights. Illustrated Post 8vo $1.50
The Weavers. Illustrated Post 8vo 1.50
The Right of Way. Illustrated Post 8vo 1.50
A Ladder of Swords. Illustrated Post 8vo 1.50

Pierre and His People.
Mrs. Falchion.
The Trespasser.
The Translation of a Savage.
The Trail of the Sword.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac.
An Adventurer of the North.
The Seats of the Mighty.
The Pomp of the Lavilettes.
The Battle of the Strong.
The Lane that Had No Turning.
Donovan Pasha.
Old Quebec (In collaboration with C. G. Bryan).
Round the Compass in Australia.
A Lover's Diary.
Embers (Private Publication only).

Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
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-