Excerpt: ...what I asked for. There is another way, but I hate to use it." She was the other way! She saw it plainly. He did not love her, but he saw that he could fascinate her, and he hoped to use her as an aid to his escape. She threw her head up proudly. Then a man swung into view across the Northern Lights. Virginia pressed back against the palings among the bushes until he should have passed. It was Ned Trent, returning from a walk to the end of the island. He was alone and unfollowed, and the girl realized with a ...
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Excerpt: ...what I asked for. There is another way, but I hate to use it." She was the other way! She saw it plainly. He did not love her, but he saw that he could fascinate her, and he hoped to use her as an aid to his escape. She threw her head up proudly. Then a man swung into view across the Northern Lights. Virginia pressed back against the palings among the bushes until he should have passed. It was Ned Trent, returning from a walk to the end of the island. He was alone and unfollowed, and the girl realized with a sudden grip at the heart that the wilderness itself was sufficient safeguard against a man unarmed and unequipped. It was not considered worth while even to watch him. Should he escape, unarmed as he was, sure death by starvation awaited him in the land of dread. As he entered the settlement he struck up an air. "Le fils du roi s'en va chassant, En roulant ma boule, Avec son grand fusil d'argent, Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant." Almost immediately a window slid back, and an exasperated voice cried out: "Hola dere, w'at one time dam fool you for mak' de sing so late!" The voice went on imperturbably: "Avec son grand fusil d'argent, En roulant ma boule, Visa le noir, tua le blanc, Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant." "Sacre!" shrieked the habitant. "Hello, Johnny Frenchman!" called Ned Trent, in his acid tones. "That you? Be more polite, or I'll stand here and sing you the whole of it." The window slammed shut. Ned Trent took up his walk again toward some designated sleeping-place of his own, his song dying into the distance. "Visa le noir, tua le blanc, En roulant ma boule, O fils du roi, tu es mechant! Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant." "And he can sing!" cried the girl bitterly to herself. "At such a time! Oh, my dear God, help me, help me! I am the unhappiest girl alive!" Chapter Eleven Virginia did not sleep at all that night. She was reaching toward her new self. Heretofore she had ruled those...
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Add this copy of The Call of the North to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Good. No dust jacket. 3 p. l., 260 p. 19 cm. "Triangle books edition published June 1941." "Originally published under the title Conjuror's house."Text is clean, cover has some light wear, still clean and tight.
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Very Good- Pictorial cloth. Printing date of this edition actually unknown. 260pp. Small ink stamp on ffep. Upper front cover corner bumped, else moderate wear to extremities. No dj.
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VG. First photoplay edition bound in gray cloth with a black and brown pic torial front board. Illustrated with scenes from the Jesse Lasky Featu re Play Co. film starring Robert Edeson and Theodore Roberts. A Very G ood copy. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Dusting to the spine and front cover. The rear cover has soiling along its spine seam. Dust so iling to the edges of the upper page block. Former owner's name pencil ed on the front fly leaf. No dust jacket.
