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George Raymond Ray. Kasba (White Partridge)
Kasba (White Partridge)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT
CHAPTER II. FORT FUTURE
CHAPTER III. KASBA FIGHTS A BITTER FIGHT
CHAPTER IV. THE MAN OF THE SHADOWS
CHAPTER V. AN ESKIMO CONJURER AND A PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER VI. LOST IN THE DRIFTING SNOW
CHAPTER VII “THE PACKET” AT LAST
Your ever loving. Lena.”
CHAPTER VIII. DELGEZIE’S DESPAIR
CHAPTER IX. ENTERTAINING THE “PACKET” MEN
CHAPTER X. A TRIP TO AN ESKIMO ENCAMPMENT
CHAPTER XI. BROOM HAS CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES AND A SORE TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XII. AN ESKIMO ENCAMPMENT
CHAPTER XIII. A DASTARDLY DEED
CHAPTER XIV. GRUESOME DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XV. A BITTER SORROW
CHAPTER XVI. RETRIBUTION
CHAPTER XVII. A NARROW ESCAPE
CHAPTER XVIII. AN INGENIOUS EXPEDIENT
CHAPTER XIX. KASBA’S SACRIFICE
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George Raymond Ray
A Story of Hudson Bay
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Sahanderry brought in an armful of wood, which he dropped beside the stove. Kasba reached out her hand blindly, placed a few of the pieces gingerly upon the embers and blew the whole into a blaze; then, satisfied that the fire was well under way, she rose from her knees, and putting off her outdoor clothing, selected half-a-dozen ptarmigan from a number on the table, and, seating herself on an empty sugar-case, commenced to pluck the birds into a large tin bowl at her feet. She worked the faster because a dull pain was making itself felt in her heart.
The noise of the tobacco-cutting and the crackling of the fire were the only sounds to break the stillness.
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