Novels by:
BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
North of Fifty-Three
Big Timber
Burned Bridges
Poor Man's Rock
POOR MAN'S ROCK
BY
BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
Published September, 1920
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
POOR MAN'S ROCK__Prologue—Long, Long Ago
CHAPTER I__The House in Cradle Bay
CHAPTER II__His Own Country
CHAPTER III__The Flutter of Sable Wings
CHAPTER IV__Inheritance
CHAPTER V__From the Bottom Up
CHAPTER VI__The Springboard
CHAPTER VII__Sea Boots and Salmon
CHAPTER VIII__Vested Rights
CHAPTER IX__The Complexity of Simple Matters
CHAPTER X__Thrust and Counterthrust
CHAPTER XI__Peril of the Sea
CHAPTER XII__Between Sun and Sun
CHAPTER XIII__An Interlude
CHAPTER XIV__The Swing of the Pendulum
CHAPTER XV__Hearts are not Always Trumps
CHAPTER XVI__En Famille
CHAPTER XVII__Business as Usual
CHAPTER XVIII__A Renewal of Hostilities
CHAPTER XIX__Top Dog
CHAPTER XX__The Dead and Dusty Past
CHAPTER XXI__As it was in the Beginning
POOR MAN'S ROCK
Long, Long Ago
The Gulf of Georgia spread away endlessly, an immense, empty stretch ofwater bared to the hot eye of an August sun, its broad face only savedfrom oily smoothness by half-hearted flutterings of a westerly breeze.Those faint airs blowing up along the Vancouver Island shore made