# The Pirate of Jasper Peak

   "The Pirate of Jasper Peak" is a little more toward the juvenile in that its hero is a tenderfoot of sixteen; but it is not written in the salad style of the usual "boy's book". Hugh Arnold is too young for college or war-service, and when his father goes over with the Medical Corps, he sets out to visit some friends at a little mountain town in Minnesota. When he gets there, the friends have vanished, lost in the mountains. There is a bad man in the neighborhood (see title) who is supposed to have had something to do with their disappearance, but there is no telling. The villagers, chiefly well-meaning Swedes, are thrifty and industrious people, but their little holdings of land near the village are barren, and their road to fertile lands beyond is blocked by the ferocious "pirate", who will let nobody settle near his domain.... —H. W. Boyntown, A Roundup of Western Stories
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THE PIRATE OF JASPER PEAK
Close to the hearth a big chair had been drawn and in this some one was sitting.
THE PIRATE OF JASPER PEAK
BY
ADAIR ALDON Author of “The Island of Appledore,” etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1918 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published, September, 1918
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO • DALLAS ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
CONTENTS
* CHAPTERPAGE
* IA Stranger in a Strange Land................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* IIThe Brown Bear’s Skin................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20
* IIILaughing Mary................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................46
* IVThe Heart of the Forest................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................65
* VOscar Dansk................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................84
* VIThe Promised Land................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................103
* VIIWhither Away?................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................128
* VIIIA Night’s Lodging................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................147
* IXPeril at the Bridge................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................164
* XFirst Blood to the Pirate................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................186
* XIThe White Flag................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................203
* XIIA Highway through the Hills................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................224
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