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Title: Northern Diamonds

Author: Frank Lillie Pollock

Release Date: October 8, 2010 [EBook #32323]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: LOWERED THE CAN CAUTIOUSLY BY A STRING]

NORTHERN DIAMONDS

BY

FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK

_With Illustrations_

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1917

COPYRIGHT, 1914 AND 1915, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1917_

NOTE

This book has appeared in the _Youth's Companion_ in the form of a
serial and sequel, and my thanks are due to the proprietors of that
periodical for permission to reprint.

FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK

ILLUSTRATIONS

LOWERED THE CAN CAUTIOUSLY BY A STRING . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

THE OTHER BOYS HAD BEEN BUSY

"THAT IS OUR CABIN. LET US COME IN, I SAY"

DRAGGED HIM UP, PROTESTING, AND RUBBED SNOW ON HIS EARS

FLUNG THE SACK INTO THE MAN'S LAP

_From drawings by Harry C. Edwards_

NORTHERN DIAMONDS

CHAPTER I

It was nearly eleven o'clock at night when some one knocked at the door
of Fred Osborne's room. He was not in the least expecting any caller
at that hour, and had paid no attention when he had heard the doorbell
of the boarding-house ring downstairs, and the sound of feet ascending
the steps. He hastened to open the door, however, and in the dim
hallway he recognized the dark, handsome face of Maurice Stark, and
behind it the tall, raw-boned form of Peter Macgregor.

Both of them uttered an exclamation of satisfaction at seeing him.
They were both in fur caps and overcoats, for it was a sharp Canadian
December night, and at the first glance Fred observed that their faces
wore an expression of excitement.

"Come in, boys!" he said. "I wasn't going to bed. Here, take your
coats off. What's up? You look as if something was the matter."

"Is Horace in town?" demanded Peter.

Fred sho