Jack Chanty

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Footner Hulbert. Jack Chanty

Jack Chanty

Table of Contents

I. THE HAIR-CUT

II. THE COMPANY FROM "OUTSIDE."

III. TALK BY THE FIRE

IV. THE CONJUROR

V. JACK HEARS ABOUT HIMSELF

VI. THE PRICE OF SLEEP

VII. AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS

VIII. THE FEMININE EQUATION

IX. YELLOW METAL

X. A CRUMBLING BRAIN

XI. THE SHOWDOWN

XII. JACK FINDS OUT

XIII. THE RETREAT

XIV. BEAR'S FLESH AND BERRIES

XV. AN EXPEDITION OF THREE

XVI. THE TEPEES OF THE SAPIS

XVII. ASCOTA ESCAPES

XVIII. THE END OF ASCOTA

XIX. AN OLD SCORE IS CHARGED OFF

XX. THE LITTLE GREAT WORLD

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Hulbert Footner

A Story of Athabasca

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Mary glanced swiftly at Jack. He, too, was looking at the deck of the steamboat and he had stopped whittling his paddle. A dreadful pang transfixed Mary's breast. Her hands and feet suddenly became enormous to her, and her body seemed like a coarse and shapeless lump. She looked down at her clean, faded print dress; she could have torn it into ribbons. She looked at her dark-browed mother with eyes full of a strange, angry despair. The elder woman had by this time seen what was coming, and her lip curled scornfully. Mary's eyes filled with tears. She slipped out of the group unseen, and, running back to the house, cast herself on her bed and wept as she had never wept.

It was as if he said: "Aha! my young lady, I know your kind! None of you will ever play that game again with me!"

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