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Title: The Gold Trail

Author: Harold Bindloss

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Language: English

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THE GOLD TRAIL

by

HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of The Cattle Baron's Daughter,
The Greater Power, Winston of the
Prairie, Etc.

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1910, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
May, 1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. BOTTOMLESS SWAMP
II. THE PACKER
III. THE MODEL
IV. IDA'S FIRST ASCENT
V. IDA'S CONFIDENCE
VI. KINNAIRD STRIKES CAMP
VII. GRENFELL'S MINE
VIII. IN THE RANGES
IX. A FRUITLESS SEARCH
X. THE HOTEL-KEEPER
XI. IN THE MOONLIGHT
XII. THE COPPER-MINE
XIII. STIRLING LETS THINGS SLIDE
XIV. IDA ASSERTS HER AUTHORITY
XV. THE ROCK POOL
XVI. ON THE LAKE
XVII. SCARTHWAITE-IN-THE-FOREST
XVIII. WESTON'S ADVOCATE
XIX. ILLUMINATION
XX. IDA CLAIMS AN ACQUAINTANCE
XXI. THE BRULEE
XXII. GRENFELL GOES ON
XXIII. THE LODE
XXIV. A QUALIFIED SUCCESS
XXV. STIRLING GIVES ADVICE
XXVI. THE JUMPERS
XXVII. SAUNDERS TAKES PRECAUTIONS
XXVIII. WESTON STANDS FAST
XXIX. THE FIRE
XXX. DEFEAT
XXXI. HIGH-GRADE ORE
XXXII. GRENFELL'S GIFT

THE GOLD TRAIL

CHAPTER I

BOTTOMLESS SWAMP

It was Construction Foreman Cassidy who gave the place its name when
he answered his employer's laconic telegram. Stirling, the great
contractor, frequently expressed himself with forcible terseness; but
when he flung the message across to his secretary as he sat one
morning in his private room in an Ottawa hotel, the latter raised his
eyebrows questioningly. He knew his employer in all his moods; and he
was not in the least afraid of him. There w