Category: Novels
|THE life-saving crew were giving an exhibition drill. A number of people, mostly women and children, were scattered about the beach (for since the failure of the lumber and salt, that had expanded Liddington into a city with four paved streets, the only important events were...
“Yes, but look at that.” Hunch motioned toward the lake, which lay blue and sparkling beyond the Buttersville sandspit. “Quiet as August and it's a short run. There ain't hardly...
16. CHAPTER XVI--POP-CORN BALLS|HUNCH worked hard during the rest of the winter, so hard that he was startled one day, after two weeks up country in the logging camp, to find that March was only a week away....
7. CHAPTER VII--A LIGHT GOES OUT|MAMIE grew slowly better, but the baby was kept alive only by constant attention. Hunch did not go to the house at all. Jess suggested it once or twice, but it made Hunch look...
4. CHAPTER IV--HUNCH'S WEDDING|THURSDAY morning, a day and a half before the hour set for the wedding, they lay at a wharf in Milwaukee River, ready to sail. The sky was heavy and a roaring wind blew from th...
5. CHAPTER V--MAMIE'S DEVICE|CONSIDINE was married in May. For four months Badeau heard of him and Mamie only in a roundabout way. One day, toward the dose of September, the two men met on the road.
12. CHAPTER XII--HUNCH AND MAMIE|HUNCH went down to Liddington Sunday morning on the combination freight and passenger train. Bruce had come to the station with him, and stood looking after the train for a lon...
11. CHAPTER XI--STARTING FRESH“Yes, I know.” And Mr. Jackson also knew that Hunch was a good man. “Tell you what I'll do, Badeau; I'll make a place for you. How are you on logs?”
15. CHAPTER XV--THE LETTER|IT was a cold day in Manistee. The snow lay in high banks on each side of the street-car tracks, with paths cut through at the crossings and in front of the larger stores; unde...
13. CHAPTER XIII--A DARK DAY AT LIDDINGTON|BRUCE came down to the station in the evening, and was standing on the platform when Hunch stepped off the train. They walked up together and were half-way to the room, before...
6. CHAPTER VI--BRUCE CELEBRATES“Yes, I s'posed you knew what was the matter. Thought mebbe Jess told you--but she couldn't though, could she? I'm awful worried. It's too soon, you know. You see that's what I...
1. CHAPTER I--THE MEETING|THE life-saving crew were giving an exhibition drill. A number of people, mostly women and children, were scattered about the beach (for since the failure of the lumber and sal...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--THE HOUSE WITH THE SHINGLED FRONT|THE Fates kept Hunch from getting to Liddington again during the autumn, so he took to writing letters. He could not write what he would have said; his letters were stilted lit...
17. CHAPTER XVII--OLD TIES|THE next day Hunch was moody. The men were afraid of him, and it was after a long time of bracing his courage, that the mate came up to where Hunch was sitting on the rail.
3. CHAPTER III--THE CALL|TEN days before the wedding, they were lying at Manistee, waiting for a load of salt. Bruce had been growing more restless and absent-minded. The fault grew unchecked, because...
2. CHAPTER II--ON THE BEACH|AT Manitowoc they picked up a load of laths and shingles, consigned to Grand Haven, and from there they went down to St. Joe, so that it was nearly a week before they returned...
14. CHAPTER XIV--CONSIDINE'S WORK IS ENDED|THE next morning Bruce was still in bed when Hunch went to work. McGuire did not appear with the other men, and at noon his brass check still hung on its nail in the timekeeper...
10. CHAPTER X--JIM BARTLETT CALLS|ALL the rest of the day Hunch paced up and down on the shore ice, watching the schooner until the foremast went over and the timber was strewn for a mile along the beach.
8. CHAPTER VIII--SETTING A DAY|HUNCH took charge of the funeral. After it was over, and while the man was closing the casket, he stepped to the front porch for a breath of air. Jess Bartlett had lingered aft...