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CHAPTER IV THE LAKE OF SHADOWS
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The evening was gloomy and there was a boisterous1 onshore wind when Jake Carnally stood on a sawmill dump, looking out across the Lake of Shadows. Its troubled waters reflected the color of the leaden clouds above, though they were laced with tumbling foam2, and short, white-topped waves broke angrily upon the sweating sawdust at Carnally's feet. The tall pines that rolled back from the beach had faded to a deep somber3 hue4; the distance was blurred5 and gray. The lake is a large one, stretching many leagues to the south, but it is strewn with forest-clad islets, and those inshore obstructed6 Carnally's view. On the nearest of them wisps of smoke drifted out from among the shadowy trunks and an aromatic7 smell of burning cedar8 reached him across the spray-swept sound. Holiday-makers from Winnipeg had pitched a summer camp there.
Seeing nothing out on the lake, he turned and glanced past the tall iron chimney-stacks toward a row of pretty wooden houses beside the river mouth. A moving cloud of sooty smoke floated above them, and he knew that a west-bound train was pulling out of the station. Then a man came up to him.
"Why, Jake!" he cried. "You look as if you'd been up against it! When did you come down?"
Carnally smiled. He was tall, and sparely but[Pg 36] strongly built. His knee-boots were dilapidated; his brown overalls9 badly torn.
"This afternoon," he answered. "Took the river for it with two of the boys, and a mighty10
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