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Title: The Pathless Trail

Author: Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

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Language: English

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THE PATHLESS TRAIL

by

ARTHUR O. FRIEL

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Made in the United States of America

THE PATHLESS TRAIL

Copyright, 1922, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

TO
THE MEMORY OF
MY FATHER
GEORGE WILLIAM FRIEL

CONTENTS

I. SONS OF THE NORTH

II. AT SUNDOWN

III. THE VOICE OF THE WILDS

IV. THE GERMAN

V. INTO THE BUSH

VI. IN THE NIGHT WATCH

VII. COLD STEEL

VII. THE DOUBLE-CROSS

IX. FIDDLERS THREE

X. BY THE LIGHT OF STORM

XI. OUT OF THE AIR

XII. THE ARROW

XIII. THE WAY OF THE JUNGLE

XIV. A DUEL WITH DEATH

XV. THE CANNIBALS

XVI. BLACKBEARD

XVII. FEVER

XIX. FRUIT OF THE TRAP

XIX. THE RED BONES

XX. THE RAPOSA

XXI. SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT

XXII. THE SIREN OF WAR

XXIII. STRATEGY

XXIV. THE BATTLE OF THE TRIBES

XXV. THE PASSING OF SCHWANDORF

XXVI. PARTNERS

THE PATHLESS TRAIL

CHAPTER I.

SONS OF THE NORTH

Three men stood ankle deep in mud on the shore of a jungle river,
silently watching a ribbon of smoke drift and dissolve above the somber
mass of trees to the northwest.

Three men of widely different types they were, yet all cradled in the
same far-off northern land. The tallest, lean bodied but broad
shouldered, black of hair and gray of eye, held himself in soldierly
fashion and gazed unmoved. His two mates--one stocky, red faced and red
headed; the other slender, bronzed and blond--betrayed their thoughts in
their blue eyes. The red man squinted qu