[CHAPTER I. A Council on Skates]
[CHAPTER II. To Welcome the Coming Guest]
[CHAPTER III. The Everett Household]
[CHAPTER IV. On the Cross-head]
[CHAPTER V. The Meeting in the Waters]
[CHAPTER VI. Marjorie's Party]
[CHAPTER VII. Janey's Prophecy]
[CHAPTER VIII. In the Dark]
[CHAPTER IX. Camping on the Beaverhead]
[CHAPTER X. Up the Gulch]
[CHAPTER XI. "Sweet Charity's Sake"]
[CHAPTER XII. Home without a Mother]
[CHAPTER XIII. At the Nine-hundred Level]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Beginning of the Old Story]
[CHAPTER XV. Mr. Atherden]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Completed Story]
[CHAPTER XVII. The Tragedy of the Unexpected]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Under Orders]
[L'ENVOI.]
[Other Books Published by T. Y. CROWELL & CO.]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["A quartette of boys and girls were darting about on skates."]

["He cautiously moved away a few inches along the beam."]

["His lamp extended in one hand, while with his other he held his cane, which he was poking about in the soft, sticky mud."]


IN BLUE CREEK CAÑON.


CHAPTER I.