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The Hunted Woman
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Title: The Hunted Woman
Author: James Oliver Curwood
Release Date: February 27, 2004 [EBook #11328]
Language: English
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THE HUNTED WOMAN
BY
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
Author of KAZAN, Etc.
Illustrated by
FRANK B. HOFFMAN
1915
TO MY WIFE
AND
OUR COMRADES OF THE TRAIL
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'Look at MacDonald.... It's not the gold, but MacDonald, that's taking me North, Ladygray.... Up there, another grave is calling MacDonald.'"
A tall, slim, exquisitely poised figure.... "'Another o' them Dotty Dimples come out to save the world. I thought I'd help eggicate her a little, an' so I sent her to Bill's place'"
"A crowd was gathering.... A slim, exquisitely formed woman in shimmering silk was standing beside a huge brown bear"
"'The tunnel is closed,' she whispered.... 'That means we have just forty-five minutes to live.... Let us not lie to one another.'"
CHAPTER I
It was all new--most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely ab