Beyond the Wild River by Sarah Maine

Author:Sarah Maine [Sarah Maine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 2017-03-26T21:00:00+00:00

‘This new railway line that’s spoken of. What route will it take?’ she heard her father ask as she rejoined them.

‘Other side of the river, with a whistle-stop at the lake a few miles to the north. So then we’ll have fishermen coming downriver as well as up.’

‘And one day perhaps a very different river.’ Her father looked out across the water to where the current was strong. ‘If what we learned at the Exposition is anything to go by.’

The old man looked puzzled. ‘Meanin’ what?’

‘Meaning dams, sluices, and turbines, Mr Skinner. Water-power.’

‘On this river?’

‘I imagine someone is considering it.’

Mr Skinner looked aghast.

‘Are you investing in the electricity companies too, Mr Ballantyre?’ asked Rupert. ‘I understood these new long-distance currents can be lethal.’

‘They will be,’ he replied. ‘For the Nipigon as Mr Skinner knows it.’

Evelyn looked about her to where the sun lit the bright autumn colours along the riverbank, watching the poplar leaves tremble in the breeze before spiralling down to join the current, dropping like so many gold coins to the water. So the modern world would encroach here too, would it? Where the canoes resting on the shingle and their tiny fire were the only signs of human life—

‘Ah! What took you?’ Skinner’s shout broke into her thoughts. Tala and Machk appeared from the woods, panting, weighed down by the last canoe. ‘C’mon, get moving,’ and he gave Louis’s recumbent form a quick kick. ‘We ain’t done yet.’

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