CONTENTS.

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The Archipelago,[11]
Along The Front,[16]
The House of Cariboo.
Chap.I.The Camerons at The Front,[31]
Chap.II.Barbara and Dan at Home,[43]
Chap.III.On the Way to the Gold Fields,[46]
Chap.IV.Into the Cariboo Mountains,[50]
Chap.V.At the Four Corners,[54]
Chap.VI.Donald Visits the Gossip Club,[63]
Chap.VII.In the Mining Camp,[72]
Chap.VIII.LeClare’s Story: The Initialed Tree,[80]
Chap.IX.LeClare’s Story: The Christmas Tree,[89]
Chap.X.Adieu to the Mining Camp,[96]
Chap.XI.Nick Perkins the Money Lender,[101]
ChapXII.Barbara in the Chilcoten Valley,[110]
Chap.XIII.The Mortgage Comes Due,[115]
Chap.XIV.Blakely Consults Cameron’s Lawyer,[121]
Chap.XV.Cameron’s Resolve,[126]
Chap.XVI.The Return of the Gold Diggers,[131]
Chap.XVII.Cameron Outlines His Policy,[136]
Chap.XVIII.The Ice Raft,[143]
Chap.XIX.LeClare to Prospect in Arcadia,[153]
Chap.XX.Lucy Visits the Archipelago,[157]
Chap.XXI.Under the Initialed Tree,[166]
Chap.XXII.The Mystery of the Corner Stones,[171]
Chap.XXIII.Fraser Confers with Perkins,[175]
Chap.XXIV.Perkins Again Outwitted,[182]
Chap.XXV.Donald Ban at The Front,[188]
Chap.XXVI.Cameron’s Task Completed,[195]
The Growing Maskinonge,[200]

List of Full Page Illustrations.

“Lucy * * * watched intently a boat pushing out from a bay
farther up the shore.” (Page 159.)		[Frontispiece.]
“I had run across Jimmie, one day, while prospecting
for water lilies,”		[22]
“‘Now, Nick Perkins, if you have got anything to
say to me personally, just come down here in
the road and I’ll talk to you,’”		[68]
“‘Speak, Edmond!’ gasped Cameron. ‘What have
you behind your back? It’s gold! gold!—I
know it!’”		[76]
“As the hour of the sale approached, they assembled
at the east end of the broad veranda,”		[188]
“‘Well, it’s pretty bad,’ said Du Ponté, ‘but Ribbon
needs you the worst of any of us,’”		[212]