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Title: The Indian Drum
Author: William MacHarg
Edwin Balmer
Illustrator: W. T. Benda
Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33065]
Language: English
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[Frontispiece: As Constance started away, Spearman suddenly drew her
back to him and kissed her.]
THE INDIAN DRUM
BY
WILLIAM MacHARG
AND
EDWIN BALMER
FRONTISPIECE BY
W. T. BENDA
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
_Copyright, 1917,_
BY EDWIN BALMER
_All rights reserved_
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I THE MAN WHOM THE STORM HAUNTED
II WHO IS ALAN CONRAD?
III DISCUSSION OF A SHADOW
IV "ARRIVED SAFE; WELL"
V AN ENCOUNTER
VI CONSTANCE SHERRILL
VII THE DEED IN TRUST
VIII MR. CORVET'S PARTNER
IX VIOLENCE
X A WALK BESIDE THE LAKE
XI A CALLER
XII THE LAND OF THE DRUM
XIII THE THINGS FROM CORVET'S POCKETS
XIV THE OWNER OF THE WATCH
XV OLD BURR OF THE FERRY
XVI A GHOST SHIP
XVII "HE KILLED YOUR FATHER"
XVIII MR. SPEARMAN GOES NORTH
XIX THE WATCH UPON THE BEACH
XX THE SOUNDING OF THE DRUM
XXI THE FATE OF THE MIWAKA
THE INDIAN DRUM
CHAPTER I
THE MAN WHOM THE STORM HAUNTED
Near the northern end of Lake Michigan, where the bluff-bowed
ore-carriers and the big, low-lying, wheat-laden steel freighters from
Lake Superior push out from the Straits of Mackinac and dispute the
right of way, in the island divided channel, with the white-and-gold,
electric lighted, wireless equipped passenger steamers bound for
Detroit and Buffalo, there is a copse of pine and hemlock back from the
shingly beach. From this copse--dark, blue, primeval, silent at most
times as when the Great Manitou ruled his inland waters--there comes at
time of storm a sound like the booming of an old Indian drum. This
drum beat, so the tradition says, whenever the lake took a life; and,
as a sign perhaps that it is still the Manitou who rules the waters in
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