A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers ———— New York

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
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Contents

I. [AT FORT MOWBRAY]
II. [THE MISSION OF ST. AGATHA]
III. [THE LETTER]
IV. [ON BELL RIVER]
V. [IN THE NIGHT]
VI. [JOHN KARS]
VII. [AT SNAKE RIVER LANDING]
VIII. [TWO MEN OF THE NORTH]
IX. [MURRAY TELLS HIS STORY]
X. [THE MAN WITH THE SCAR]
XI. [THE SECRET OF THE GORGE]
XII. [DR. BILL DISPENSES AID AND ARGUMENT]
XIII. [THE FALL TRADE]
XIV. [ARRIVALS IN THE NIGHT]
XV. [FATHER JOSÉ PROBES]
XVI. [A MAN AND A MAID]
XVII. [A NIGHT IN LEAPING HORSE]
XVIII. [ON THE NORTHERN SEAS]
XIX. [AT THE GRIDIRON]
XX. [THE "ONLOOKERS" AGAIN]
XXI. [DR. BILL INVESTIGATES]
XXII. [IN THE SPRINGTIME]
XXIII. [THE DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN]
XXIV. [THE FIRST STREAK OF DAWN]
XXV. [THE OUT-WORLD]
XXVI. [THE DEPUTATION]
XXVII. [THE BATTLE OF BELL RIVER]
XXVIII. [THE HARVEST OF BATTLE]
XXIX. [THE LAP OF THE GODS]
XXX. [THE END OF THE TERROR]
XXXI. [THE CLOSE OF THE LONG TRAIL]
XXXII. [THE SUMMER OF LIFE]

The Triumph of John Kars

CHAPTER I

AT FORT MOWBRAY

Murray McTavish was seated at a small table, green-baized, littered with account-books and a profusion of papers. But he was not regarding these things. Instead, his dark, intelligent eyes were raised to the smallish, dingy window in front of him, set in its deep casing of centuries-old logs. Nor was the warm light shining in his eyes inspired by the sufficiently welcome sunlight beyond. His gaze was entirely absorbed by a fur-clad figure, standing motionless in the open jaws of the gateway of the heavily timbered stockade outside.

It was the figure of a young woman. A long coat of beaver skin, and a cap of the same fur pressed down low over her ruddy brown hair, held her safe from the bitter chill of the late semi-arctic fall. She, too, was absorbed in the scene upon which she was gazing.