قراءة كتاب 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 as Empery) A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert's Land
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