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lack enough to give a true picture of that bit of Western life of which the writer was some small part. The men of the book are still there in the mines and lumber camps of the mountains, fighting out that eternal fight for manhood, strong, clean, God-conquered. And, when the west winds blow, to the open ear the sounds of battle come, telling the fortunes of the fight. Because a man's life is all he has, and because the only hope of the brave young West lies in its men, this story is told. It may be that the tragic pity of a broken life may move some to pray, and that that divine power there is in a single brave heart to summon forth hope and courage may move some to fight. If so, the tale is not told in vain. C.W.G. CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LUMBER CAMP CHAPTER II THE BLACK ROCK CHRISTMAS CHAPTER III WATERLOO. OUR FIGHT--HIS VICTORY CHAPTER IV MRS. MAVOR'S STORY CHAPTER V THE MAKING OF THE LEAGUE CHAPTER VI BLACK ROCK RELIGION CHAPTER VII THE FIRST BLACK ROCK COMMUNION CHAPTER VIII THE BREAKING OF THE LEAGUE CHAPTER IX THE LEAGUE'S REVENGE CHAPTER X WHAT CAME TO SLAVIN CHAPTER XI THE TWO CALLS CHAPTER XII LOVE IS NOT ALL CHAPTER XIII HOW NELSON CAME HOME CHAPTER XIV GRAEME'S NEW BIRTH CHAPTER XV COMING TO THEIR OWN CHAPTER I CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LUMBER CAMP It was due to a mysterious dispensation of Providence, and a good deal to Leslie Graeme, that I found myself in the heart of the Selkirks for my Christmas Eve as the year 1882 was dying. It had been my plan to spend my Christmas far away in Toronto, with such Bohemian and boon companions as could be found in that cosmopolitan and kindly city. But Leslie Graeme changed all that, for, discovering me in the village of Black Rock, with my traps all packed, waiting for the stage to start for the Landing, thirty miles away, he bore down upon me with resistless force, and I found myself recovering from my surprise only after we had gone in his lumber sleigh some six miles on our way to his camp up in the mountains. I was surprised and much delighted, though I would not allow him to think so, to find that his old-time power over me was still there. He could always in the old 'Varsity days--dear, wild days--make me do what he liked. He was so handsome and so reckless, brilliant in his class-work, and the prince of half-backs on t
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