THE SECRET TRAILS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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He struggled frantically to drag himself up again uponthe ledge.THE
SECRET TRAILS
BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
Author of "The Feet of the Furtive," "Kings in Exile," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914,
By the Associated Sunday Magazines.
Copyright, 1915,
By the National Sunday Magazine,
By the Red Book Corporation, and
By the Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Copyright, 1916,
By the International Magazine Company.
Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Black Boar of Lonesome Water 1
The Dog That Saved the Bridge 33
The Calling of the Lop-horned Bull 53
The Aigrette 77
The Cabin in the Flood 90
The Brothers of the Yoke 115
The Trailers 136
Cock-crow 154
The Ledge on Bald Face 179
The Morning of the Silver Frost 201
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He struggled frantically to drag himself upagain upon the ledge Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
The black boar had wandered so far into the wildernessthat he was safe from pursuit 10
He only knew his lines were close ahead, and he must reach them 50
Black and huge against the pallid radiance towered a moose bull 56<