Оглавление
James French Dorrance. Never Fire First
Never Fire First
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. CHANCE OF MORPHEUS
CHAPTER II. THE ESKIMO WAY
CHAPTER III. COMPLICATION ASTOUNDING
CHAPTER IV. BEST OF BAD BUSINESS
CHAPTER V. SILVER AND BLACK
CHAPTER VI. REGARD FOR THE LAW
CHAPTER VII. WANTED—AN ESKIMO FOX
CHAPTER VIII. THE HERO FUGITIVE
CHAPTER IX. THE SKEIN TANGLES
CHAPTER X. HARD KNUCKLES
CHAPTER XI. THE SCARLET SPECIAL
CHAPTER XII. LIVING TARGETS
CHAPTER XIII. HIS MONTREAL PROMISE
CHAPTER XIV. A DOUBLE-BARRELLED CASE
CHAPTER XV. UNDER SUSPICION
CHAPTER XVI. THE "WIDDY" IN GRAY
CHAPTER XVII. RICHER THAN GOLD
CHAPTER XVIII. A CRYPTIC MESSENGER
CHAPTER XIX. INTO THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XX. MORNING'S MAZE
CHAPTER XXI. THE CLOSED CREEK
CHAPTER XXII. A FIGURE OF SPEECH
CHAPTER XXIII. WHEN MORNING CAME
CHAPTER XXIV. TENT-TOLD TALES
CHAPTER XXV. CLUTCH OF THE BREED
CHAPTER XXVI. BOOT AND BOOTY
CHAPTER XXVII. BRIGHT WITH PROMISE
Отрывок из книги
James French Dorrance
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Story
.....
A generous mouth, full and red of lips, sent his eyes hastening on their fleeting inspection when she became aware of his presence in the kitchen doorway. If the even rows of pearls behind those lips had flashed him a smile then, the temptation must have been too great. Her slender figure merely hinted at rounding out in its mould of black blanket-cloth. He glanced shyly at her ankles—always the cover-point in his estimate of feminine pulchritude. She still wore her trail muckluks of fur, clumsy looking as a squaw's sacking, but he knew beyond doubt how silk stockings and pumps would become her.
In the eyes he had remarked on the trail, however, Moira's beauty reached its highest peak, he decided. They were as blue as the heart of an Ungova iceberg and as warm as the fire which glowed behind her. They looked out at him in a friendly, inquiring way from behind lashes as dark as an Arctic winter night.
.....
