tion>Ridgwell Cullum
The Hound From The North
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664611024
Table of Contents
‘YELLOW BOOMING––SLUMP IN GREY’
LESLIE GREY FULFILS HIS DESTINY
AN ECHO FROM THE ALASKAN MOUNTAINS
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THE HOUND FROM THE NORTH
CHAPTER I
IN THE MOUNTAINS
A pallid sun, low, gleaming just over a rampart of mountain-tops. Sundogs––heralds of stormy weather––fiercely staring, like sentries, upon either hand of the mighty sphere of light. Vast glaciers shimmering jewel-like in the steely light of the semi-Arctic evening. Black belts of gloomy pinewoods on the lower slopes of the mountains; the trees snow-burdened, but black with the darkness of night in their melancholy depths. The earth white; snow to the thickness of many feet on all. Life none; not a beast of the earth, nor a fowl of the air, nor the hum of an insect. Solitude. Cold––grey, pitiless cold. Night is approaching.
The hill ranges which backbone
