God's Country--And the Woman
By James Oliver Curwood
Author of "The Honor of the Big Snows," "Philip Steele," Etc.
CHAPTER ONE
Philip Weyman's buoyancy of heart was in face of the fact that he
had but recently looked upon Radisson's unpleasant death, and that
he was still in a country where the water flowed north. He laughed
and he sang. His heart bubbled over with cheer. He talked to
himself frankly and without embarrassment, asked himself
questions, answered them, discussed the beauties of nature and the
possibilities of storm as if there were three or four of him
instead of one.
At the top end of the world a man becomes a multiple being--if he
is white. Two years along the rim of the Arctic had taught Philip