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Project Gutenberg's The Indian Drum, by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer 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.net Title: The Indian Drum Author: William MacHarg Edwin Balmer Illustrator: W. T. Benda Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33065] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INDIAN DRUM *** Produced by Al Haines [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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