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Gilbert Parker. Northern Lights
Northern Lights
Table of Contents
A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS
ONCE AT RED MAN’S RIVER
THE STROKE OF THE HOUR
BUCKMASTER’S BOY
TO-MORROW
QU’APPELLE
THE STAKE AND THE PLUMB-LINE
WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY
GEORGE’S WIFE
MARCILE
A MAN, A FAMINE, AND A HEATHEN BOY
THE HEALING SPRINGS AND THE PIONEERS
THE LITTLE WIDOW OF JANSEN
WATCHING THE RISE OF ORION
THE ERROR OF THE DAY
THE WHISPERER
AS DEEP AS THE SEA
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Gilbert Parker
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Heel, Shako!” she said, and made for the door of the little house, which looked so snug and homelike. She paused before she came to the door, to watch the smoke curling up from the chimney straight as a column, for there was not a breath of air stirring. The sun was almost gone, and the strong bluish light was settling on everything, giving even the green spruce-trees a curious burnished tone.
Swish! Thud! She faced the woods quickly. It was only a sound that she had heard how many hundreds of times! It was the snow slipping from some broad branch of the fir-trees to the ground. Yet she started now. Something was on her mind, agitating her senses, affecting her self-control.
