Category: Historical Novels
The story within these covers has been written from impressions received in boyhood days, ideas which time could not erase and which the passing of the years has developed and strengthened. It is perhaps only fair to state frankly that the story is largely founded on fact, tho...
The story within these covers has been written from impressions received in boyhood days, ideas which time could not erase and which the passing of the years has developed and s...
2. CHAPTER I.Close to the bleak coast of the Orkney Islands, not far from where Lord Kitchener found his final resting-place and where the waves seemed to dash ceaselessly upon the rocky coa...
3. CHAPTER II.Trans-Atlantic voyages in those days were not made with the same comfort nor by any means in the same time that are occupied now. The young men who have been coming to Canada in...
4. CHAPTER III.While, as we have seen, MacTavish’s impression of the young men coming into his employ had been pleasing, he was anxious to become more closely acquainted personally with each o...
5. CHAPTER IV.The arrival of a party in such an unusual fashion created considerable interest at Fort Garry. Donald, the Factor, had been expecting the young man and his guide for some time....
6. CHAPTER V.Nowadays two brothers in the Canadian West who had any esteem for one another could communicate in several ways and would probably write each other very frequently. It was natur...
7. CHAPTER VI.With Robert’s return to Fort Garry a new incident, one which was to lead him into unexpected and far-reaching new paths, developed. When he returned to Factor Donald he was info...
8. CHAPTER VII.Up to this time we have been following Robert and his brother almost completely. It will do no harm, however, to leave them for a little time and to hark back to another home in...
9. CHAPTER VIII.A young man with an intense love for nature, who had heard and answered the call of the wilderness, who knew the silent places, the forest giants, who associated with the birds...