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قراءة كتاب The Gun-Brand
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The Gun-Brand
By JAMES B. HENDRYX
AUTHOR OF
"The Promise" Etc.
With Frontispiece in Colors
By CLYDE FORSYTHE
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
published by arrangement with G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
COPYRIGHT, 1917
By
JAMES B. HENDRYX
Second Impression
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I | THE CALL OF THE RAW |
| II | VERMILION SHOWS HIS HAND |
| III | PIERRE LAPIERRE |
| IV | CHLOE SECURES AN ALLY |
| V | PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS |
| VI | BRUTE MACNAIR |
| VII | THE MASTER MIND |
| VIII | A SHOT IN THE NIGHT |
| IX | ON SNARE LAKE |
| X | AN INTERVIEW |
| XI | BACK ON THE YELLOW KNIFE |
| XII | A FIGHT IN THE NIGHT |
| XIII | LAPIERRE RETURNS FROM THE SOUTH |
| XIV | THE WHISKEY RUNNERS |
| XV | "ARREST THAT MAN!" |
| XVI | MACNAIR GOES TO JAIL |
| XVII | A FRAME-UP |
| XVIII | WHAT HAPPENED AT BROWN'S |
| XIX | THE LOUCHOUX GIRL |
| XX | ON THE TRAIL OF PIERRE LAPIERRE |
| XXI | LAPIERRE PAYS A VISIT |
| XXII | CHLOE WRITES A LETTER |
| XXIII | THE WOLF-CRY! |
| XXIV | THE BATTLE |
| XXV | THE GUN-BRAND |
THE GUN-BRAND
CHAPTER I
THE CALL OF THE RAW
Seated upon a thick, burlap-covered bale of freight—a "piece," in the parlance of the North—Chloe Elliston idly watched the loading of the scows. The operation was not new to her; a dozen times within the month since the outfit had swung out from Athabasca Landing she had watched from the muddy bank while the half-breeds and Indians unloaded the big scows, ran them light through whirling rock-ribbed rapids, carried the innumerable