A MAN: HIS MARK
Second Edition
A Romance
By W. C. Morrow
Author of “Bohemian Paris of To-Day,” “The Ape, The Idiot, and Other People,” etc.
With a Frontispiece by Elenore Plaisted Abbott
Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott Company
1899
CONTENTS
A MAN: HIS MARK
CHAPTER ONE
One forenoon, in the winter of the great storms that swept the Pacific States, Adrian Wilder, a tall, slender, dark young man, stood in front of his stone hut on a shoulder of Mt. Shasta and watched the assembling of the elemental furies to do their savage work in the mountains. By all the signs that he had learned he knew that mighty havoc was to be done; but he did not foresee, nor did the oldest residents of that wilderness, that this was the beginning of the most memorable winter of terrors known to the white man’s history of the region.
A strong sense of security and comfort filled him as, turning fro