The Silent Battle

THE SILENT BATTLE
GEORGE GIBBS
AUTHOR OF THE BOLTED DOOR, THE FORBIDDEN WAY, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1913, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1912, 1913, by the Pictorial Review Company
Printed in the United States of America


THE SILENT BATTLE
Gallatin wearily lowered the creel from his shoulders and dropped it by his rod at the foot of a tree. He knew that he was lost—had known it, in fact, for an hour or more, but with the certainty that there was no way out until morning, perhaps not even then, came a feeling of relief, and with the creel, he dropped the mental burden which for the last hour had been plaguing him, first with fear and then more recently with a kind of ironical amusement.