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The Greater Power By: Harold Bindloss (1866-1945) |
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BY SAME AUTHOR The Cattle Baron's Daughter
Alton Of Somasco
Dust Of Conflict
Winston Of The Prairie
For Jacinta
Delilah Of The Snows
By Right Of Purchase
Lorimer Of The Northwest
[Illustration: "I AM AFRAID I'M GOING TO LOSE HIM, AFTER ALL."
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THE GREATER POWER BY HAROLD BINDLOSS Author of "The Cattle Baron's Daughter," "By Right of Purchase,"
"Lorimer of the Northwest," "Thrice Armed," etc. With Frontispiece in Colours by W. HERBERT DUNTON NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1909, By FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY All Rights Reserved September, 1909
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
I Overburdened 1
II The Trail 11
III Waynefleet's Ranch 22
IV Laura Waynefleet's Wish 34
V The Flood 45
VI The Breaking of the Dam 56
VII Laura Makes a Dress 66
VIII By Combat 78
IX Gordon Speaks His Mind 89
X The Calling Cañon 99
XI The Great Idea 109
XII Wisbech Makes Inquiries 118
XIII On the Trestle 127
XIV In the Moonlight 138
XV Martial's Misadventure 149
XVI Acton's Warning 162
XVII An Eventful Day 174
XVIII Tranquillity 186
XIX Nasmyth Hears the River 195
XX Nasmyth Goes Away 208
XXI The Men of the Bush 218
XXII Nasmyth Sets to Work 228
XXIII The Derrick 239
XXIV Realities 251
XXV Nasmyth Decides 260
XXVI One Night's Task 269
XXVII Timber Rights 278
XXVIII A Painful Duty 287
XXIX A Futile Scheme 297
XXX Second Thoughts 309
XXXI The Last Shot 318
THE GREATER POWER
CHAPTER I OVERBURDENED
It was winter in the great coniferous forest which rolls about the
rocky hills and shrouds the lonely valleys of British Columbia. A
bitter frost had dried the snow to powder and bound the frothing
rivers; it had laid its icy grip upon the waters suddenly, and the
sound of their turmoil died away in the depths of the rock walled
cañons, until the rugged land lay wrapped in silence under a sky of
intense, pitiless blueness that seemed frozen too. Man and beast
shrink from the sudden cold snaps, as they call them, in that country,
and the rancher, who has sheep to lose, sits shivering in his log
house through the long forenights with a Marlin rifle handy, while the
famished timber wolves prowl about his clearing. Still, it is the
loggers toiling in the wilderness who feel the cold snaps most, for
the man who labours under an Arctic frost must be generously fed, or
the heat and strength die out of him, and, now and then, it happens
that provisions become scanty when no canoe can be poled up the
rivers, and the trails are blocked with snow... Continue reading book >>
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