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By
HULBERT FOOTNER
Author of “The Fur Bringers” etc.
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THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY
Publishers New York
Copyright, 1921 by
THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CHAPTER PAGE
On a January afternoon, as darkness was beginning to gather, the “gang”sat around the stove in the Company store at Fort Enterprise discussingthat inexhaustible question, the probable arrival of the mail. The biglofty store, with its glass front, its electric lights, its stock ofexpensive goods set forth on varnished shelves, suggested a cityemporium rather than the Company’s most north-westerly post, nearly athousand miles from civilization; but human energy accomplishes seemingmiracles in the North as elsewhere, and John Gaviller the trader wasabove all an energetic man. Throughout the entire North they point withpride to