Northwest!

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Bindloss Harold. Northwest!

I. JIMMY SIGNS A NOTE

II. JIMMY'S APOLOGY

III. THE CAYUSE PONY

IV. KELSHOPE RANCH

V. JIMMY HOLDS FAST

VI. DEERING OWNS A DEBT

VII. AN INSURABLE INTEREST

VIII. JIMMY GETS TO WORK

IX. THE QUIET WOODS

X. LAURA'S REFUSAL

XI. THE GAME RESERVE

XII. STANNARD FRONTS A CRISIS

XIII. THE DESERTED HOMESTEAD

XIV. A SHOT IN THE DARK

XV. TROOPER SIMPSON'S PRISONERS

XVI. THE NECK

XVII. DILLON MEDITATES

XVIII. THE CARTRIDGE BELT

XIX. USEFUL FRIENDS

XX. BOB'S DENIAL

XXI. DEERING'S EXCURSION

XXII. DEERING TAKES COUNSEL

XXIII. MARGARET TAKES A PLUNGE

XXIV. JIMMY RESIGNS HIMSELF

XXV. THE CALL

XXVI. DEERING TAKES THE TRAIL

XXVII. DEERING'S PROGRESS

XXVIII. A DISSOLVING PICTURE

XXIX. HELD UP

XXX. THE GULLY

XXXI. STANNARD'S LINE

XXXII. BY THE CAMP-FIRE

XXXIII. SIR JAMES APPROVES

Отрывок из книги

In the morning Jimmy leaned, rather moodily, against the terrace wall. There was no garden, for the hotel occupied a narrow shelf on the hillside, and from the terrace one looked down on the tops of dusky pines. The building was new, and so far the guests were not numerous, but the manager claimed that when the charm of the neighborhood was known, summer tourists and mountaineers would have no use for Banff.

Perhaps his hopefulness was justified, for all round the hotel primeval forest met untrodden snow, and at the head of the valley a glacier dropped to a calm green lake. A few miles south was a small flag-station, and sometimes one heard a heavy freight train rumble in the woods. When the distant noise died away all was very quiet but for the throb of falling water.

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"At Chamonix, about a year ago. When I met Mr. Stannard my luck was good. I'd got into the wrong lot; they used me and laughed. Well, your father showed me where I was going and sent the others off. Perhaps you know how he does things like that? He's urban, but very firm. Anyhow, the others went and I've had numerous grounds to trust Mr. Stannard since."

Jimmy lighted a cigarette. Perhaps he ought to go, but Laura's interest was flattering and she had not allowed him to talk like this before. In fact, he rather wondered why she had done so. In the meantime Laura pondered his artless narrative. His liking her father was not strange, for Stannard's charm was strong, but Laura imagined to enjoy his society cost his young friends something. Perhaps it had cost Jimmy something, for he had stated that one must pay for all one got. He was obviously willing to pay, but Laura was puzzled. If his uncle's portrait was accurate, she imagined the sum Jimmy was allowed to spend was not large.

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