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[Illustration: "He tried to shoot once more, into the very face of the
oncoming brute."--FRONTISPIECE. _See Page 245._]




THE HEART OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN

By EDFRID A. BINGHAM

With Frontispiece in Colors

By ANTON OTTO FISHER

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by Arrangements with Little, Brown & Company




Copyright, 1916,

By Edfrid A. Bingham.

All rights reserved

Published, March, 1916

Reprinted, March, 1916 (twice)

July, 1916; August, 1916

April, 1917




CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                                         PAGE
        I The Forbidden Pasture                                      1
       II The Road to Paradise                                      15
      III Seth Huntington's Opportunity                             26
       IV The Highest Bidder                                        37
        V "He Shall Tell Me!"                                       50
       VI The Story of the Scar                                     60
      VII The Way of a Maid With a Man                              71
     VIII The End of Her Stratagem                                  86
       IX Hearts Insurgent                                          99
        X Strictly Confidential                                    112
       XI Avalanche                                                121
      XII Sunnysides                                               133
     XIII Hillyer's Dilemma                                        144
      XIV Coals of Fire                                            155
       XV The Valley of the Shadow                                 166
      XVI Questions and Answers                                    176
     XVII Interlude                                                186
    XVIII The Challenge of the Brute                               193
      XIX Smythe's Last Budget                                     202
       XX "The Trail Held True"                                    215
      XXI In the Hollow of the Storm                               228
     XXII