Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "He looked down into her lifted face, believing yet not believing." Frontispiece. _See page_ 312.] *THE* *HEART OF THE RED FIRS* A STORY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY *ADA WOODRUFF ANDERSON* ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES GRUNWALD BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1909 _Copyright, 1908,_ BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. _All rights reserved_ Published April, 1908 Printers B. J. Parkhill & Co., Printers, Boston, U.S.A. TO THOSE FEW REMAINING PIONEERS, WHO KNEW THE NISQUALLY TRAIL INTO THE GREAT SOLITUDES, IN TIMES BEFORE THE LOGGING RAILROAD DEVASTATED THE PUGET SOUND HILLS, AND THE WILDER- NESS BEGAN TO RECEDE AT THE COMING OF THE BUILDER OF TOWNSITES. *CONTENTS* CHAPTER I. The Teacher and the Freak of the Strange Thoroughbred II. The Leaning Tower III. The Camp at the Headwaters IV. "Ther Biggest Coward in ther Woods" V. Stratton’s Way VI. Mose VII. The Instrument of Tyee Sahgalee VIII. "I’m Going to Make Him White" IX. Uncle Silas X. Lem and the *Phantom* XI. The House-Raising XII. A Face in the Night XIII. The Pressure of the Thumb-Screw XIV. The Salmon-trollers XV. The Man in the Tide-rip XVI. The Fiery Lane XVII. The Man Who Bungled XVIII. Water-logged XIX. "Andromeda Has Found a Perseus" XX. The Grand Coup XXI. Hide and Seek XXII. For Little Silas XXIII. "As Long as We Two Live" XXIV. "A Man Of Straw" XXV. The Rockslide XXVI. The Judge XXVII. Lem Creates Fiction XXVIII. The Pressure of the Wilderness XXIX. The Crack of Doom XXX. The Lost Prospect *LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS* "He looked down into her lifted face, believing yet not believing" . . . Frontispiece "She paused, swaying in the hot gale" "’I like you as well as I could like any American with un-American ways’" "He turned and looked into the fire" *THE HEART OF THE RED FIRS* *CHAPTER I* *THE TEACHER AND THE FREAK OF THE STRANGE THOROUGHBRED*