Category: Historical Novels
|If anyone would understand how Ben Cree comes to be what he is for better or worse, he should know first the Commodore Inn and what it meant in those days to have the great wharves for a playground. And I cannot conceive to this day how one can amuse oneself, or be satisfied...
|A ship's boat has a flat board running the lengthway and well enough to sleep on, but from beneath go out ribs which are prominent and sharp. I awoke with someone jerking and t...
1. CHAPTER I.--BENSON AND CREE--THE COMMODORE INN, FORE AND AFT; AND A|If anyone would understand how Ben Cree comes to be what he is for better or worse, he should know first the Commodore Inn and what it meant in those days to have the great wha...
3. CHAPTER III.--DOWN THE COAST--CAVARLY'S PLAN.|The _Octarara_ might have ranked as a gunboat or a second-class cruiser, and it might be the Government did not rank her very high, for the only regular military aboard were th...
5. CHAPTER V.--TOMMY TODD'S.|The island seemed to stretch endlessly north and south, and to average half a mile in width; but there was a long slice of bay from the inner sound, nearly opposite to where th...
6. CHAPTER VI.--THE DISMAL CANAL.|The waggon was loaded with barrels and bags, and plainly Mr. Todd was taking produce to some market. The great lean mules hung their heads and flopping ears hear the ground.
7. CHAPTER VII.--WE COME TO A RIVER CALLED ELIZABETH, AND TO ANOTHER CALLED|We left the railroad behind us and took that northern highway. It was still early in the night when we passed a big plantation. There was a white house hack from the road, with...
2. CHAPTER II.--LACRIMÆ RERUM--THE THREE MEN IN THE PUBLIC.|It was in the latter part of September that I first observed the three strangers at the corner table in the public room, though they may have been there before. Afterwards, whe...