Set up and electrotyped.

Published, September, 1918

CONTENTS

I.[A Stranger in a Strange Land]
II.[The Brown Bear’s Skin]
III.[Laughing Mary]
IV.[The Heart of the Forest]
V.[Oscar Dansk]
VI.[The Promised Land]
VII.[Whither Away?]
VIII.[A Night’s Lodging]
IX.[Peril at the Bridge]
X.[First Blood to the Pirate]
XI.[The White Flag]
XII.[A Highway through the Hills]

THE PIRATE OF JASPER PEAK

CHAPTER I

A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

The long Pullman train, an hour late and greatly begrudging the time for a special stop, came sliding into the tiny station of Rudolm and deposited a solitary passenger upon the platform. The porter set Hugh Arnold’s suitcase on the ground and accepted his proffered coin, all in one expert gesture, and said genially: