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Title: The Intriguers

Author: Harold Bindloss

Release Date: December 21, 2004 [EBook #14406]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "All had gone well the first day"]

The Intriguers

By HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of "Ranching for Sylvia," "Alton of Somasco,"
"Thurston of Orchard Valley," "By Right of Purchase,"
Etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors By

D. C. HUTCHISON

A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

114-120 East Twenty-third Street New York

Published by Arrangement With Frederick A. Stokes Company

Copyright, 1914, by

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

All rights reserved

February, 1914

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE BLAKE AFFAIR
II ON THE RIVER BOAT
III THE COUSINS
IV THE MAN FROM CONNECTICUT
V CORNERING THE BOBCAT
VI THE PRAIRIE
VII THE OCCULT MAN
VIII TROUBLE
IX A SUSPICIOUS MOVE
X THE MUSKEG
XI KIDNAPPED
XII THE FEVER PATIENT
XIII A STAUNCH ALLY
XIV DEFEAT
XV THE FROZEN NORTH
XVI THE TRAIL OF THE CARIBOU
XVII A RESPITE
XVIII THE BACK TRAIL
XIX THE DESERTED TEPEES
XX A STARTLING DISCOVERY
XXI A MATTER OF DUTY
XXII THE GIRL AND THE MAN
XXIII SOLVING THE PROBLEM
XXIV LOVE AND VICTORY

THE INTRIGUERS

CHAPTER I

THE BLAKE AFFAIR

On a fine morning early in July Mrs. Keith sat with a companion,
enjoying the sunshine, near the end of Dufferin Avenue, which, skirts
the elevated ground above the city of Quebec. Behind her rose the
Heights of Abraham where the dying Wolfe wrested Canada from France; in
front, churches, banks, offices and dwellings, curiously combining the
old and the very new, rose tier on tier to the great red Frontenac
Hotel. It is a picturesque city that climbs back from its noble river;
supreme, perhaps, in its situation among Canadian towns, and still
retaining something of the exotic stamp set upon it by its first
builders whose art was learned in the France of long