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Title: Carmen's Messenger

Author: Harold Bindloss

Release Date: December 15, 2004 [eBook #14361]

Language: English

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CARMEN'S MESSENGER

by

HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of _Johnstone of the Border_, _Prescott of Saskatchewan_, etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
New York

1917

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. FEATHERSTONE CHANGES HIS PLANS
II. THE MILL-OWNER
III. FOSTER MAKES A PROMISE
IV. THE FIRST ADVENTURE
V. FEATHERSTONE'S PEOPLE
VI. HIS COMRADE'S STORY
VII. THE PACKET
VIII. AN OFFER OF HELP
IX. THE FALSE TRAIL
X. THE DROVE ROAD
XI. THE POACHERS
XII. A COMPLICATION
XIII. FOSTER RETURNS TO THE GARTH
XIV. FOSTER SEES A LIGHT
XV. THE GLOVE
XVI. A DIFFICULT PART
XVII. THE LETTERS
XVIII. SPADEADAM WASTE
XIX. ALICE'S CONFIDENCE
XX. THE RIGHT TRACK
XXI. DALY TAKES ALARM
XXII. CARMEN GETS A SHOCK
XXIII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
XXIV. LAWRENCE'S STORY
XXV. FOSTER SETS OFF AGAIN
XXVI. THE REAL-ESTATE AGENT
XXVII. THE MINE
XXVIII. THE LOG BRIDGE
XXIX. FOSTER ARRIVES
XXX. RUN DOWN
XXXI. DALY SOLVES THE PUZZLE
XXXII. FEATHERSTONE APOLOGIZES

I

FEATHERSTONE CHANGES HIS PLANS

It was getting dark, and a keen wind blew across the ragged pines
beside the track, when Jake Foster walked up and down the station at
Gardner's Crossing in North Ontario. Winter was moving southwards fast
across the wilderness that rolled back to Hudson's Bay, silencing the
brawling rivers and calming the stormy lakes, but the frost had
scarcely touched the sheltered valley yet and the roar of a rapid
throbbed among the trees. The sky had the crystal clearness that is
often seen in northern Canada, but a long trail of smoke stretched
above the town, and the fumes of soft coal mingled with the aromatic
smell of the pines. Gardner's Crossing stood, an outp