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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!"
