Kate watched him stalk toward her, his equine legs encased in fine woolen breeches and boots of polished obsidian. Their father was killed at Kildun twelve years after that, just before Duncan was named Earl of Argyll, and Kate and Robert's guardian. He'd promised to bring her and her brother to his home when they were children, but at the end of each visit he left without them. He had arrived in Glen Orchy a few days ago to bring her to Kildun Castle, in Inverary. Swiping her hair away from her eyes, she spied her uncle Duncan crossing the small bailey of her holding. Mindless of her uncle's men honing their battle skills around her, she lifted the ax she gripped in her other hand and grunted as it sank deep into her opponent's straw chest. Her blade severed an arm, but the torso remained intact. K ATE C AMPBELL L OOKED her enemy square in his lifeless face and then swung.
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Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and " The Heathen".įlora and John London, Jack's mother and stepfather His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories " To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. 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