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[Book cover]

THE WOMAN
from “OUTSIDE”
[On Swan River]

By
HULBERT FOOTNER
Author of “The Fur Bringers” etc.

[Publisher’s mark]

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.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

  1. The White Medicine Man 1
  2. Hooliam 15
  3. The Unexpected Visitor 24
  4. More About Clare 35
  5. The First Stage 46
  6. The Kakisas 59
  7. On the River 68
  8. The Log Shack 83
  9. The Foot 96
  10. The Start Home 111
  11. The Mystery 129
  12. Imbrie 139
  13. The Rescue 154
  14. Pursuit 172
  15. Ups and Downs 192
  16. The Last Stage on Swan River 212
  17. The Hearing 243
  18. A Letter From Major Egerton to His Friend Arthur Doncourt, Esq. 256
  19. Epilogue 264

[1]THE WOMAN FROM OUTSIDE

CHAPTER ITHE WHITE MEDICINE MAN

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

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