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Title: The Maid of the Whispering Hills

Author: Vingie E. Roe

Release Date: March, 2004 [EBook #5253]
Posting Date: June 12, 2009

Language: English

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THE MAID OF THE WHISPERING HILLS

By Vingie E. Roe

Published January, 1912

To
My Mother
Who Has Been My Constant Help

My Father
Who Was Proud Of Me

And
My Little Brother,
These Two Long Asleep On The Hill At Carney--

This Book Is Lovingly Inscribed
V. E. R.

Contents

I The Venturers
II The Spring
III New Homes
IV The Stranger From Civilisation
V Nor'westers
VI Spring Trade
VII Forest News
VIII First Dawn
IX Gold Fire
X The Saskatoon
XI Leaven At Work
XII The Nakonkirhirinons
XIII "A Skin For A Skin"
XIV Fellow Captives
XV Long Trail
XVI Travel
XVII The Compelling Power
XVIII "I Am A Stone To Your Foot, Ma'amselle"
XIX The Hudson's Bay Brigade
XX The Wolf And The Caribou
XXI Tightened Screws
XXII "Choose, White Woman!"
XXIII The Painted Post
XXIV The Stone To The Foot Of Love
XXV Answered Prayers
XXVI Sanctuary
XXVII Return
XXVIII The Old Dream Once More
XXIX Bitter Aloes
XXX The Land Of The Whispering Hills

CHAPTER I THE VENTURERS

"Mercy!" shrieked little Francette, her red-rose face aghast, "he will
begin before I can bring the help!"

Like a flash of flame the maid in her crimson skirt shot up the main way
of Fort de Seviere to where the factory lay asleep in the warm spring
sun.

On its log step, pipe in mouth, young Anders McElroy leaned against the
jamb and looked smilingly out upon his settlement. Peace lay softly upon
it, from the waters of the small stream to the east where