March, 1915 
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T II E G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E 
A PAGE OF ADVENTURE 
God’s Country — and the Woman 
A Mystery Tale of the Northlands 
By JAMES OLIVER CUR WOOD, Author of “Kazan,” etc. 
A MYSTERY romance laid in the Northlands. Josephine Adare was called L’Ange through- 
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the great secret in her life, and the strange promise she won from Philip Weyman make this 
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The Real Josephine of the Story 
Her right name is Melisse Cummins. 
I shall never forget the first day I 
saw her, and that scene I have de- 
scribed, as the picture was painted 
for me then, in the meeting of Joseph- 
ine and Philip Weyman beside the 
rock in my novel. I had come up 
with Cummins, her husband, who 
had , been down to the edge of civiliz- 
ation. She stood in the doorway of . 
a log cabin that was overgrown with 
woodvine and mellow with the dull 
red glow of the climbing bakneesh, 
with the warmth of the late summer 
How the Author First Met Her 
sun falling upon her bare head. In 
that first view I had of her I called 
her beautiful. It was chiefly, I think, 
because of her splendid hair, her 
lithe slimness, and the color and glow 
in her face and eyes. Her hair was 
undone, and she greeted us with 
the dark and lustrous masses of it 
sweeping about her shoulders and 
down to her hips. Thus it was that 
I first saw Melisse Cummins, the 
Florence Nightingale of several thous- 
and square miles of northern wilder- 
ness. 
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New York. A. Van Gelder. 
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