title: The Abelard Sanction and Other Stories: The Abelard Sanction, Assassins, The Double Dealer, Falling, and Surviving Toronto
author: David Morrell
description: David Morrell is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books, including his award-winning Creepers. Co-founder of the International Thrillers Writers Organization, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. To learn more, go to www.davidmorrell.net.
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  # GAUT GURLEY; OR, THE TRAPPERS OF UMBAGOG.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### D. P. THOMPSON
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI.
  
  
  SEQUEL.
  
  
  
  
  
  GAUT GURLEY; OR, THE TRAPPERS OF UMBAGOG.
  
  
  A TALE OF BORDER LIFE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime.—A
  
  
  Display Party to avoid Bankruptcy.—Gaut Gurley, and other leading
  
  
  Characters, introduced as Actors in this scene of City Life.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money, to
  
  
  become a “Solid Man of Boston.”—Humble Beginnings.—Tempted into
  
  
  Smuggling from Canada in Embargo times, and 