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Burned Bridges

Burned Bridges

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Burned Bridges, by Bertrand W. Sinclair, Illustrated by Ralph P. Coleman

Title: Burned Bridges

Author: Bertrand W. Sinclair

Release Date: August 19, 2005 [eBook #16553]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Frontispiece

He felt with an odd exaltation the quick hammer
of her heart against his breast. Frontispiece.










BURNED BRIDGES

BY

BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

AUTHOR OF
NORTH OF FIFTY-THREE, Etc.


FRONTISPIECE BY RALPH P. COLEMAN





GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Published, August, 1919
Reprinted, September, 1919
Reprinted, October, 1919
Reprinted, November, 1919
Reprinted, February, 1920





CONTENTS


  1. The First Problem
  2. The Man and His Mission
  3. The Deserted Cabin
  4. In Which Mr. Thompson Begins to Wonder Painfully
  5. Further Acquaintance
  6. Certain Perplexities
  7. A Slip of the Axe
  8. --And the Fruits Thereof
  9. Universal Attributes
  10. The Way of a Maid with a Man
  11. A Man's Job for a Minister
  12. A Fortune and a Flitting
  13. Partners
  14. The Restless Foot
  15. The World Is Small
  16. A Meeting by the Way
  17. The Reproof Courteous (?)
  18. Mr. Henderson's Proposition
  19. A Widening Horizon
  20. The Shadow
  21. The Renewed Triangle
  22. Sundry Reflections
  23. The Fuse—
  24. —And the Match That Lit the Fuse—
  25. —And the Bomb the Fuse Fired
  26. The Last Bridge
  27. Thompson's Return
  28. Fair Winds
  29. Two Men and a Woman
  30. A Mark to Shoot at


BURNED BRIDGES


CHAPTER I

THE FIRST PROBLEM


Lone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish python—a python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest and poplar groves, of reedy sloughs and hushed lakes far northward.

The waterways of the North are its highways. There are no others. No wheeled vehicles traverse that silent region which lies just over the fringe of the prairies and the great Canadian wheat belt. The canoe is lord of those watery roads; when a man would diverge therefrom he must carry his goods upon his back. There are paths, to be sure, very faint in places, padded down by the feet of generations of Athabascan tribesmen long before the Ancient and Honorable Company of

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