Summary
In a frost-laced outpost where the river itself seems to exhale brimstone, Mabella—part porcelain doll, part caged lynx—moves between pine-needled shadows and the sulfur glow of oil-lamps, her betrothal to Pierre, the Mountie whose scarlet tunic burns like a brand against the snow, suddenly nullified by Gaspard, a métis revenant whose grin splits the fabric of civility. Blackmail, not love, forges the forced union: Lopente’s buried sins—ledger ink, smuggled pelts, perhaps blood—are the shackles. The wedding night is a blizzard of knuckles; the conjugal bed becomes an altar of splinters. She flees to the palisaded fort seeking parchment-thin sanctuary, but Gaspard, half wolf-half man, drags her into a howling traverse of white nullity, sled-runners slicing the tundra like scalpels. Pierre, love transmuted into retribution, gives chase across cathedral-quiet drifts while auroras braid the sky in serpentine greens. Rin-Tin-Tin—sinewy myth with obsidian eyes—launches himself as a living projectile, jaws closing on the villain’s throat in a pagan verdict. When the fur-wrapped corpse settles, Father La Croix unspools the last reel of deceit: the foundling swaddled in a snowbank is racially unmarked, free to reclaim the scarlet coat of her chosen knight.
Synopsis
Though engaged to Pierre, a member of the Royal Mounted Police, Mabella, a girl living at a Canadian fur-trading post, is forced to marry Gaspard, a vicious half-breed who has incriminating evidence about her father, Lopente. Pierre is distressed; Mabella, brutally mistreated and neglected by Gaspard, goes to the police station for protection. Gaspard, however, abducts her and forces her to go away with him on a dogsled. Pierre discovers that Gaspard is wanted for a crime, and pursues them; Rin-Tin-Tin, his dog, kills Gaspard, effecting the rescue of Mabella. Father La Croi reveals that Mabella, an orphan discovered during a snowstorm, is not of Indian parentage, and she is happily united with Pierre.
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