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Title: The Huntress

Author: Hulbert Footner

Release Date: August 12, 2008 [EBook #26283]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Bela (Colleen Moore) says to Gladding (Lloyd Hughes):
"Fine surprise um white man."

(_Photoplay Edition--"The Huntress"_) (_A First National Picture_)]

THE HUNTRESS

By HULBERT FOOTNER

AUTHOR OF

_"The Fur Bringers," "The Woman From Outside," "The
Owl Taxi," "Thieves' Wit," "The Substitute
Millionaire," etc._

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with The James A. McCann Company

Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright 1922, by

THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FISH-EATERS' VILLAGE 1

II. MUSQ'OOSIS ADVISES 11

III. AT NINE-MILE POINT 21

IV. THE VISITOR 36

V. THE DICE DECIDE 46

VI. A FRESH SURPRISE 57

VII. THE SUITORS 70

VIII. THE LITTLE MEADOW 85

IX. BELA'S ANSWER 98

X. ON THE LAKE 107

XI. THE ISLAND 120

XII. THE NEXT DAY 136

XIII. ON THE RIVER 149

XIV. AT JOHNNY GAGNON'S 164

XV. THE NORTH SHORE 177

XVI. AT THE SETTLEMENT 193

XVII. AN APPARITION 207

XVIII. THE "RESTERAW" 222

XIX. THE NEW BOARDER 234

XX. MALICIOUS AC