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EBOOK THE SKY LINE OF SPRUCE ***


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[Illustration: He was leaning forward, aware of nothing in the
world but the forthcoming crisis.
FRONTISPIECE.]


THE SKY LINE
OF SPRUCE
By EDISON MARSHALL

AUTHOR OF
"The Voice of the Pack," "The Strength of the Pines,"
"The Snowshoe Trail," "Shepherds of the Wild," etc.

1922


CONTENTS
PART ONE
THE WAKENING
PART TWO
THE WOLF-MAN
PART THREE
THE TAMING


PART ONE
THE WAKENING


I
The convict gang had a pleasant place to work to-day. Their road
building had taken them some miles from the scattered outskirts of Walla
Walla, among fields green with growing barley. The air was fresh and
sweet; the Western meadow larks, newly come, seemed in imminent danger
of splitting their own throats through the exuberance of their song.
Even the steel rails of the Northern Pacific, running parallel to the
stretch of new road, gleamed pleasantly in the spring sun.
The convicts themselves were in a genial mood, easily moved to wide
grins; and with a single exception they looked much like any other road
gang at work anywhere in the land.
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