Category: Adventure
CHAPTER I. A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW 1 II. AN UNRECOVERED TRAIL 13 III. JULES OF THE GREAT HEART 25 IV. JULES OF THE RESCUE 36 V. JULES’S STRATAGEM 54 VI. NOËL 63 VII. “REMEMBER JULES!” 73 VIII. “SOMME T’ING FOR HEEM” 88 IX. MAN AGAINST MAN 98 X. INTO THE NORTH 112 XI. THE NEW COU...
The sky soon became dark, and twilight was very short; the men selected a sheltered ravine in which to spend the night, and the dogs were unharnessed from the sledges. They quic...
2. Part 2Not long after they had gone Jules reached the edge of the barren, and saw the sledges scurrying across: clouds of snow-dust hid them at times; at others they appeared sharp and...
13. Part 13A mink, drawn by the smell of pemmican, sneaked up from the shore, its wet body glistening in the dying firelight. It scuffled here and there, nosing about the supper remains, t...
7. Part 7Jules hurried down to the edge of the ice and watched them go. “Etienne Annaotaha! By gar, Jules see vous somme taime h’aga’n!” he said aloud, then went back for his snow-shoes,...
6. Part 6The sun shone over the glare-crust with dazzling brilliancy, and he could not look on it long. “Mush!” he shouted to the dogs, and went on. The trail kept its northern course, s...
11. Part 11“Qu’est-ce?” asked one of the Indians. No answer: the others were listening. Only the snow silence could be heard; the minute settling of the flakes on the logs, the drifting of...
5. Part 5The red light flickered strangely over the spotted bark walls, and the shadow of Jules’s head grew and shrank as the sticks settled, flared up, burned out, and settled again on...
12. Part 12“La lune, by gar she mak’ bon signe!” he said aloud as he noted that both tips of the new moon pointed strongly upward. Higher and higher it rose; the shining dew on his tanned...
4. Part 4When half-way up the line, he heard a voice calling behind him, “Tritou! Tritou! Ah leave de dog h’at Rivière Noire to-mor’! Rememb’ Jules Verbaux. Au r’voir!” then a laugh, and...
9. Part 9A gray shape came speeding past the hut, saw it, and stopped under its lee, disturbing the little sables. It was a tall caribou that stood there panting, its scarlet tongue drip...
8. Part 8Cuchoise started violently. “Verbaux?” he asked, and a deep frown came over his heavy face. “Le Pendu he tell to me dat he keel Verbaux five day gon’ at Lac des Sables.”
10. Part 10“A spirit of my forefathers came and stood before my eyes, and it spoke to me. ‘Morning Star, Chief of the Chippewyans, war, death, hunger, fire, and cold are coming on you,’ th...
1. Part 1CHAPTER I. A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW 1 II. AN UNRECOVERED TRAIL 13 III. JULES OF THE GREAT HEART 25 IV. JULES OF THE RESCUE 36 V. JULES’S STRATAGEM 54 VI. NOËL 63 VII. “REMEMBER JUL...
14. Part 14● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consist...