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CHAPTER 1.-The story opens In the
town. Of Granville, Ontario, where Miss
HaEel Weir Is employed as a st%enographer
1s engaged to Jack Barrow, a young real
estate agent, and the wedding day Is set.
VVhi!e walking with him one Sunday they
meet MT. Bush, HazeI's employer, who for
the nrst time seems to notice her at
tractiveness. Shortly afterward. at his re-
guest. she becomes his private stenog-
rapher. After three months Mr.. Bush
and after q stormy scene in the office
Hazel leaves her employment, Mr.. Bush
warning her he would make her sorry for
refusing him.
CHAPTER I1-Bush makes an effort. by
e gift Of flowers. to compromise Hazel in.
them. The next day Bush is thrown from
his horse and fatally hurt. He sends for
Hazel. who refuses to see him before he
nounced that he left a legacy of 5000 to
Hazel. Sin reparation for any wrong I
may have done her" Hazel recognizes at
once what construction will be put upon
the words. Bush had his revenge.
CHAPTER Iv-Cariboo Meadows is in
gel, shortly after her arrival. loses her
way while walking in the woods. She
wanders until night, when, attracted by
hoping to find SOMEBODY who viii guide
her home. At the fire she recognizes a
Iharacter known to Cariboo Meadows as
Roaring Bill W%agstaff" who had seen
promises to take her home in the morn
Ing, but she is compelled to spend the
night in the woods.
CHAPTER v-Tney start next day,
Hazel. supposes. for Gariboo Meadows, but
Wagstaf finally admits he is taking her
to his cabin in the mountains. He Is re-
spectful and considerate, and Hazel,
though protesting Indignantly, is helpless
and has to accompany him
CHAPTER Wat the cabin wagstan
provides Hazel with clothing which had
the winter. Wagstaff tells her he loves
her, but in her Indignation at her ''abduc-
ton" she refuses to listen to him.
CHAPTER vII-with the coming of
spring Hazel insists that Wagstaff take
her out Of the mountains. He endeavors
to persuade. her to marry him and stay,
but on her persistent refusal, he accom-.
panies her to Bella Coda, from where
she can proceed to Vancouver.
CHAPTER vI1I-On parting, wagstaff
gives Hazel a package which she discov-
ers later contains $1,000 and a map which
will enable her to find her way to the
cabin II she desires to go back. At VAN
cooYgyer Hazel plans to return to Gran
loves wagstaff, and decides to go to him.
CHAPTER Ix-with the aid of Bills
map she finds her way back and the pair
travel to a Hudson Bay post and are
married After some months they decide
to &C farther into the mountains to a
spot where Bill Is confident there is gold.
Not more than fifty yards separated
the house and stable. At the stable
end stood the stack of hay, Il low hum
mock above the surrounding drift. Elk
cept for the place where Bill daily re-
moved the supply for his horses there
was not much foothOld for Il spark,
since a thin coat of snow OVERLAND the
greater part of the top. But there was
that chance of catastrophe. The chin
ney Of their fireplace yawned wide to
the sky, vomiting sparks and ash like
Il miniature volcano when the fire was
roughly stirred, or an extra heavy sup
ply of dry wood laid OIL. When the
wind whistled out of the northwest the
line Of flight was fair over the stack.
1t behooved them II watch wind and
fire.
Hazel washed up her breakfast
dishes, and set the cabin in order ac-
cording to her housewifely instincts.
Then she curled up in the chair which
Bill had painstakingly constructed for
her especial comfort with only AK and
knife for tools. She was working on