The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods

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Altsheler Joseph Alexander. The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I. IN THE DEEP WOODS

CHAPTER II. ON THE RIDGES

CHAPTER III. THE BRAVE DEFENSE

CHAPTER IV. THE GODS AT PLAY

CHAPTER V. TAMING A SPY

CHAPTER VI. PUPILS OF THE BEAR

CHAPTER VII. THE SLEEPING SENTINELS

CHAPTER VIII. BEFORE MONTCALM

CHAPTER IX. THE SIGN OF THE BEAR

CHAPTER X. THE FLIGHT OF THE TWO

CHAPTER XI. THE MYSTIC VOYAGE

CHAPTER XII. THE MARVELOUS TRAILER

CHAPTER XIII. READING THE SIGNS

CHAPTER XIV. ST. LUC'S REVENGE

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A light wind sang through the foliage, turned to varying and vivid hues now by the touch of autumn, and it had an edge of cold that made Robert Lennox shiver a little, despite a hardy life in wilderness and open. But it was only a passing feeling. A moment or two later he forgot it, and, turning his eyes to the west, watched the vast terraces of blazing color piled one above another by the sinking sun.

Often as he had seen it the wonderful late glow over the mighty forest never failed to stir him, and to make his pulse beat a little faster. His sensitive mind, akin in quality to that of a poet, responded with eagerness and joy to the beauty and majesty of nature. Forgetting danger and the great task they had set for themselves, he watched the banks of color, red and pink, salmon and blue, purple and yellow, shift and change, while in the very heart of the vast panorama the huge, red orb, too strong for human sight, glittered and flamed.

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Garay, after his brief rest on the summit, had passed the open space and was out of sight in the bushes, but Robert knew that both Tayoga and Willet could easily pick up his trail, and now he was all eagerness to pursue him and see what the chase might disclose. A little farther down, the cliff sloped back to such an extent that they could climb it without trouble, and, when they surmounted the crest, they entered the bushes at the point where Garay had disappeared.

"Can you hear him now, Tayoga?" asked Robert.

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