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Charles George Douglas Roberts. The Heart of the Ancient Wood
The Heart of the Ancient Wood
Table of Contents
Chapter I. The Watchers of the Trail
Chapter II. The Cabin in the Clearing
Chapter III. The Exiles from the Settlement
Chapter IV. Miranda and the Furtive Folk
Chapter V. Kroof, the She-bear
Chapter VI. The Initiation of Miranda
Chapter VII. The Intimates
Chapter VIII. Axe and Antler
Chapter IX. The Pax Mirandæ
Chapter X. The Routing of the Philistines
Chapter XI. Miranda and Young Dave
Chapter XII. Young Dave at the Clearing
Chapter XIII. Milking-time
Chapter XIV. Moonlight and Moose-call
Chapter XV. A Venison Steak
Chapter XVI. Death for a Little Life
Chapter XVII. In the Roar of the Rapids
Chapter XVIII. The Forfeit of the Alien
Footnotes
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Charles George Douglas Roberts
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Chapter XVIII The Forfeit of the Alien
The lumberman gave neither a first nor a second thought to the loon at all, but quickened his pace in the cheerful open. The trail now led some way along the lake-side, till the shore became higher and rougher, and behind a cape of rock a bustling river emptied itself, carrying lines of foam and long ripples far out across the lake’s placidity. From the cape of rock towered a bleak, storm-whitened rampike, which had been a pine tree before the lightning smote it. Its broken top was just now serving as the perch of a white-headed eagle. The great bird bent fierce yellow eyes upon the stranger,—eyes with a cruel-looking, straight overhang of brow,—and stretched its flat-crowned, snake-like head far out to regard him. It opened the rending sickle of its beak and yelped at him—three times at deliberated interval. Then the traveller 17 vanished again into the gloom of the wood, and the arrogant bird plumed himself upon a triumph.
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