Of this group some reclined in the short grass others lay flat on the bank's slope while still others leaned against the carriages of two highly ornamented field-guns whose embossed muzzles gaped silently at an eastern shore nearly two miles distant. A strenuous detective story, laid in the author's chosen field of the North Woods. The dramatic power of the book alone would make it famous. In addition, it has the fascination of the great, white, quiet forests—the Silent Places.