The Indian On The Trail - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

Project Gutenberg's The Indian On The Trail, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Indian On The Trail From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood Release Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23252] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INDIAN ON THE TRAIL *** Produced by David Widger THE INDIAN ON THE TRAIL From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 By Mary Hartwell Catherwood Maurice Barrett sat waiting in the old lime-kiln built by the British in the war of 1812—a white ruin like much-scattered marble, which stands bowered in trees on a high part of the island. He had, to the amusement of the commissioner, hired this place for a summer study, and paid a carpenter to put a temporary roof over it, with skylight, and to make a door which could be fastened. Here on the uneven floor of stone were set his desk, his chair, and a bench on which he could stretch himself to think when undertaking to make up arrears in literary work. But the days were becoming nothing but trysts with her for whom he waited. First came the heavenly morning walk and the opening of his study, then the short half-hour of labor, which ravelled off to delicious suspense.