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Title: Conjuror's House
A Romance of the Free Forest

Author: Stewart Edward White

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Language: English

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CONJUROR'S HOUSE

_Beyond the butternut, beyond the maple,
beyond the white pine and the red, beyond
the oak, the cedar, and the beech, beyond
even the white and yellow birches lies a
Land, and in that Land the shadows fall
crimson across the snow._

[Illustration: PAUL GILMORE, in "THE CALL OF THE NORTH"--The dramatic
version of "CONJUROR'S HOUSE."]

CONJUROR'S HOUSE

_A Romance of the Free Forest_

BY

Stewart Edward White

AUTHOR OF THE WESTERNERS,
THE BLAZED TRAIL, ETC.

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS: NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY

STEWART EDWARD WHITE

COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

Published, March, 1903. R.

CONJUROR'S HOUSE

_Chapter One_

The girl stood on a bank above a river flowing north. At her back
crouched a dozen clean whitewashed buildings. Before her in
interminable journey, day after day, league on league into remoteness,
stretched the stern Northern wilderness, untrodden save by the
trappers, the Indians, and the beasts. Close about the little
settlement crept the balsams and spruce, the birch and poplar, behind
which lurked vast dreary muskegs, a chaos of bowlder-splits, the
forest. The girl had known nothing different for many years. Once a
summer the sailing ship from England felt its frozen way through the
Hudson Straits, down the Hudson Bay, to drop anchor in the mighty
River of the Moose. On