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Law of the North (Originally published as Empery)
A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert's Land

Law of the North (Originally published as Empery) A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert's Land

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LAW OF THE NORTH

Originally published under the title of

EMPERY

A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert's Land

BY SAMUEL ALEXANDER WHITE

AUTHOR OF THE WILDCATTERS, THE STAMPEDERS, ETC.

FRONTISPIECE IN COLORS BY
THORNTON D. SKIDMORE

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1913, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

All rights reserved


THE PRIEST NOTED THE WEAPON'S MUZZLE THRUSTING DEEPER INTO THE POWDER


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Breed of the North 9
II. The Lodge in the Wilderness 20
III. An Ultimatum 33
IV. Omens of the Law 47
V. Desirée 66
VI. In the Blood 80
VII. Lieges of the Wild 86
VIII. The Nor'wester's Flesh 100
IX. Who Rules Himself 115
X. The Cause Invincible 127
XI. Tidings of War 137
XII. "You May Come in a Blizzard!" 147
XIII. A Vow That Held 157
XIV. The Iron Trail 168
XV. Maskwa's Find 181
XVI. The First Blow 193
XVII. The Heart of the Savage 207
XVIII. A Double Surprise 219
XIX. Not in the Bonds of God 240
XX. The Long Leaguer 250
XXI. Black Ferguson's Wile 274
XXII. Fawn and Panther 295
XXIII. Conquest 315

LAW OF THE NORTH


CHAPTER I

THE BREED OF THE NORTH

Before Basil Dreaulond, the Hudson's Bay Company's courier, had won half the mile-long Nisgowan portage, the familiar noise of men toiling in pack-harness reached his ears. He stopped automatically and trained his hearing in mechanical analysis of the sound. This power had grown within him with every successive year of his wilderness life, and at once he was aware that a party of considerable size was packing across the boulder-strewn strip of woodland separating Kinistina Creek from Lac Du Longe.

The knowledge gave a wonderful quickness to the courier's rigid, listening figure. Swinging the canoe from his bulky

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