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    Cold Ghost
    Cold Ghost
    Cold Ghost
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    Cold Ghost

    By Chester S Geier

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Cold Ghost - Chester S Geier

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cold Ghost, by Chester S. Geier

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      Title: Cold Ghost

      Author: Chester S. Geier

      Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32685]

      Language: English

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      COLD GHOST

      by Chester S. Geier

      All Hager had to do was slow the dogsled to a walk, and his partner died. A perfect crime—no chance to get caught!

      n the valley, with the sheltering hills now behind them, the bitterly cold wind drove at the sled with unchecked ferocity. Gusts of snow came with the wind, thick and dry, the separate particles of it stinging on contact.

      The dogs made slow progress through the deep drifts. Hager's smoldering irritation blazed into abrupt rage. From his position at the rear of the sled, he lashed out with the driver's whip that he held in one heavily mittened hand, shouting behind the wool scarf covering the lower half of his face. The dogs lunged in their traces, whining. A couple floundered in the powdery footing and were immediately snapped at by their companions behind them.

      Hager huddled before the fire, trembling with cold that filled him with terror.

      The snow was falling swiftly and with a sinister steadiness. It seemed to hang like a vast white curtain over the valley, obscuring the hills and the fanged outline of mountains beyond. The wind seized portions of the curtain and twisted it into fantastic shapes—the shapes of demons, Hager thought suddenly. For the scene through which he moved was a kind of hell, a white and frozen hell, with the howl of the wind like the despairing shrieks of

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