CONTENTS

  1. [The First Problem]
  2. [The Man and His Mission]
  3. [The Deserted Cabin]
  4. [In Which Mr. Thompson Begins to Wonder Painfully]
  5. [Further Acquaintance]
  6. [Certain Perplexities]
  7. [A Slip of the Axe]
  8. [--And the Fruits Thereof]
  9. [Universal Attributes]
  10. [The Way of a Maid with a Man]
  11. [A Man's Job for a Minister]
  12. [A Fortune and a Flitting]
  13. [Partners]
  14. [The Restless Foot]
  15. [The World Is Small]
  16. [A Meeting by the Way]
  17. [The Reproof Courteous (?)]
  18. [Mr. Henderson's Proposition]
  19. [A Widening Horizon]
  20. [The Shadow]
  21. [The Renewed Triangle]
  22. [Sundry Reflections]
  23. [The Fuse—]
  24. [—And the Match That Lit the Fuse—]
  25. [—And the Bomb the Fuse Fired]
  26. [The Last Bridge]
  27. [Thompson's Return]
  28. [Fair Winds]
  29. [Two Men and a Woman]
  30. [A Mark to Shoot at]

BURNED BRIDGES

CHAPTER I

THE FIRST PROBLEM

Lone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish python—a python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest and poplar groves, of reedy sloughs and hushed lakes far northward.