BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1915
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
To
MAUD BLANC HARRIS
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Out of the Wilderness | [1] |
| II | An Unexpected Rescue | [6] |
| III | The Wounded Mountaineer | [18] |
| IV | A Human Enigma | [29] |
| V | An Interrupted Breakfast | [37] |
| VI | The Burned Cabin | [45] |
| VII | Dale Dawson's Philosophy | [55] |
| VIII | The Inconsequent Engineer | [66] |
| IX | At the Unpainted House | [75] |
| X | The Spirit of Sunlight Patch | [82] |
| XI | On the Threshold | [95] |
| XII | A Light Above the Mountain | [105] |
| XIII | In the Circle of Cedars | [111] |
| XIV | A Meeting of Rascals | [131] |
| XV | Trying to Play Fair | [141] |
| XVI | A Springtime Santa Claus | [155] |
| XVII | At Top Speed | [167] |
| XVIII | A Dinner of Silences | [179] |
| XIX | The Merits of Horseflesh | [192] |
| XX | A Startling Confession | [203] |
| XXI | A Voice and a Taper Flame | [216] |
| XXII | Two Plans | [226] |
| XXIII | The Second Plan | [236] |
| XXIV | The Call that Means Surrender | [245] |
| XXV | Almost a Resolution | [256] |
| XXVI | "What Eyes Have You?" | [266] |
| XXVII | A Quick Fuse | [286] |
| XXVIII | Aunt Timmie Hears a Secret | [296] |
| XXIX | A Paralysing Discovery | [306] |
| XXX | "I'll Pay the Debt!" | [316] |
| XXXI | Out of the Dying Day | [329] |
| XXXII | The Sheriff Forgets his Prisoner | [336] |
| XXXIII | The Mystic Gardener Shows his Work | [341] |
| XXXIV | A Girl's Nobility | [355] |
| XXXV | The Product of Sunlight Patch | [363] |
| XXXVI | A Tin Cylinder | [372] |
| XXXVII | Tusk | [380] |
| XXXVIII | A Lane at Twilight | [386] |
| XXXIX | Triumph | [390] |