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Project Gutenberg's The Courage of Marge O'Doone, by James Oliver Curwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Courage of Marge O'Doone Author: James Oliver Curwood Illustrator: Lester Ralph Release Date: February 10, 2006 [EBook #17745] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Against that savage background of mountain and gorge she stood out clear-cut as a cameo, slender as a reed; wild, palpitating, beautiful. She was more than a picture. She was Life.] THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD FRONTISPIECE BY LESTER RALPH PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY FOR P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY NEW YORK 1925 * * * * * Copyright, 1918, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EVERY WEEK CORPORATION, UNDER THE TITLE "THE GIRL BEYOND THE TRAIL" * * * * * THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE CHAPTER I If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak spruce forest, with the wind moaning dismally through the twisting trees--midnight of deep December--the Transcontinental would have looked like a thing of fire; dull fire, glowing with a smouldering warmth, but of strange ghostliness and out of place. It was a weird shadow, helpless and without motion, and black as the half-Arctic night save for the band of illumination that cut it in twain from the first coach to the last, with a space like an inky hyphen where the baggage car lay. Out of the North came armies of snow-laden clouds that scudded just above the earth, and with these clouds came now and then a shrieking mockery of wind to taunt this stricken creation of man and the creatures it sheltered--men and women who had begun to shiver, and whose tense white faces stared with increasing anxiety into the mysterious darkness of the night that hung like a sable curtain ten feet from the car windows. For three hours those
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