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Illustrator: Lester Ralph
THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE
BY JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
FRONTISPIECE BY LESTER RALPH
PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY FOR P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY NEW YORK 1925
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONE
If you had stood there in the edge of the bleak spruce forest, with the wind moaning dismally through the twisting trees--midnight of deep December--the Transcontinental would have looked like a thing of fire; dull fire, glowing with a smouldering warmth, but of strange ghostliness and out of place. It was a weird shadow, helpless and without motion, and black as the half-Arctic night save for the band of illumination that cut it in twain from the first coach to the last, with a space like an inky hyphen where the baggage car lay. Out of the North came armies of snow-laden clouds that scudded just above the earth, and with these clouds came now and then a shrieking mockery of wind to taunt this stricken creation of man and the creatures it sheltered--men and women who had begun to shiver, and whose tense white faces stared with increasing anxiety into the mysterious darkness of the night that hung like a sable curtain ten feet from the car windows.
For the twentieth time a passing train-man was asked the same question.
"The good Lord only knows," he growled down into the face of the young woman whose prettiness would have enticed the most chivalrous attention from him earlier in the evening. "Engine and tender been gone three hours and the divisional point only twenty miles up the line. Should have been back with help long ago. Hell, ain't it?"
The young woman did not reply, but her round mouth formed a quick and silent approbation of his final remark.
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