



Produced by Al Haines










[Frontispiece: LOWERED THE CAN CAUTIOUSLY BY A STRING]





NORTHERN DIAMONDS


BY

FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK



_With Illustrations_




BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1917




COPYRIGHT, 1914 AND 1915, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK


ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1917_




NOTE

This book has appeared in the _Youth's Companion_ in the form of a
serial and sequel, and my thanks are due to the proprietors of that
periodical for permission to reprint.

FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK




ILLUSTRATIONS


LOWERED THE CAN CAUTIOUSLY BY A STRING...... _Frontispiece_

THE OTHER BOYS HAD BEEN BUSY

"THAT IS OUR CABIN.  LET US COME IN, I SAY"

DRAGGED HIM UP, PROTESTING, AND RUBBED SNOW ON HIS EARS

FLUNG THE SACK INTO THE MAN'S LAP


_From drawings by Harry C. Edwards_




NORTHERN DIAMONDS



CHAPTER I

It was nearly eleven o'clock at night when some one knocked at the door
of Fred Osborne's room.  He was not in the least expecting any caller
at that hour, and had paid no attention when he had heard the doorbell
of the boarding-house ring downstairs, and the sound of feet ascending
the steps.  He hastened to open the door, however, and in the dim
hallway he recognized the dark, handsome face of Maurice Stark, and
behind it the tall, raw-boned form of Peter Macgregor.

Both of them uttered an exclamation of satisfaction at seeing him.
They