Copyright, 1910, by
George H. Doran Company
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[John Granger of Murder Point]1
II.[The Unbidden Guest]13
III.[The Devil in the Klondike]25
IV.[Spurling's Tale]42
V.[Cities Out of Sight]53
VI.[The Pursuer Arrives]74
VII.[The Corporal Sets Out]86
VIII.[The Last of Strangeways]100
IX.[The Break-up of the Ice]112
X.[A Message from the Dead]120
XI.[The Love of Woman]144
XII.[He Reviews His Marriage, and is Put to the Test]162
XIII.[The Dead Soul Speaks Out]186
XIV.[Spurling Makes a Request]210
XV.[Manitous and Shades of the Departed]225
XVI.[In Hiding on Huskies' Island]240
XVII.[The Forbidden River]257
XVIII.[The Betrayal]272
XIX.[The Hand in the Doorway]283
XX.[Spurling Takes Fright]297
XXI.[The Murder in the Sky]305
XXII.[The Blizzard]318
XXIII.[The Last Chance]334

MURDER POINT

CHAPTER I

JOHN GRANGER OF MURDER POINT

John Granger, agent on the Last Chance River in the interests of Garnier, Parwin, and Wrath, independent traders in the territory of Keewatin, sat alone in his store at Murder Point. He sat upon an upturned box, with an empty pipe between his lips. In the middle of the room stood an iron stove which blazed red hot; through the single window, toward which he faced, the gold sun shone, made doubly resplendent in its shining by the reflected light cast up by the leagues of all-surrounding snow and ice.