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THE SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING

CHAPTER VIII

A STOLEN EXCURSION

CHAPTER IX

CARTWRIGHT SEES A PLAN

CHAPTER X

A BOLD SPECULATION

CHAPTER XI

THE START

PART III—THE BREAKING STRAIN

CHAPTER I

THE FIRST STRUGGLE

CHAPTER II

THE WRECK

CHAPTER III

A FUEL PROBLEM

CHAPTER IV

MONTGOMERY'S OFFER

CHAPTER V

MONTGOMERY USES HIS POWER

CHAPTER VI

LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST

CHAPTER VII

BARBARA'S REFUSAL

CHAPTER VIII

CARTWRIGHT GETS TO WORK

CHAPTER IX

LISTER MAKES GOOD

CHAPTER X

BARBARA TAKES CONTROL

CHAPTER XI

LISTER'S REWARD

PART I—BARBARA'S REBELLION

CHAPTER I

CARTWRIGHT MEDDLES

Dinner was over, and Cartwright occupied a chair on the lawn in front of the Canadian summer hotel. Automatic sprinklers threw sparkling showers across the rough, parched grass, the lake shimmered, smooth as oil, in the sunset, and a sweet, resinous smell drifted from the pines that rolled down to the water's edge. The straight trunks stood out against a background of luminous red and green, and here and there a slanting beam touched a branch with fire.

Natural beauty