The Gold Trail

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By HAROLD BINDLOSS
AUTHOR OF THE CATTLE BARON’S DAUGHTER, THE GREATER POWER, WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIE, etc.
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1910, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
May, 1910
CHAPTER
THE GOLD TRAIL
CHAPTER I
It was Construction Foreman Cassidy who gave the place its name when he answered his employer’s laconic telegram. Stirling, the great contractor, frequently expressed himself with forcible terseness; but when he flung the message across to his secretary as he sat one morning in his private room in an Ottawa hotel, the latter raised his eyebrows questioningly. He knew his employer in all his moods; and he was not in the least afraid of him. There was, though most of those who did business with him failed to perceive it, a vein of almost extravagant generosity in Stirling’s character.
“Well,” said the latter, “isn’t the thing plain enough?”