[Illustration: "It was a beautiful thing, that dance, grotesque, pagan
and yet divine"]




THE PLACE BEYOND THE WINDS

BY HARRIET T. COMSTOCK


_Illustrated by_
HARRY SPAFFORD POTTER

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1914




FOREWORD


The In-Place cannot be found; you must happen upon it! Hidden behind its
rugged red rocks and hemlock-covered hills, it lies waiting for something
to happen. It has its Trading Station, to and from which the Canadian
Indians paddle their canoes--sometimes a dugout--bearing rare, luscious
blue berries invitingly packed in small baskets with their own green
leaves. And to the Station, also, go the hardy natives--good English,