Category: Historical Novels
"Dusky Dick--what can he want here, I wonder?" and there was cadence of mingled uneasiness and dislike perceptible in the old man's tones that told but too plainly the advancing figure was not that of a welcome or respected guest.
"Dusky Dick--what can he want here, I wonder?" and there was cadence of mingled uneasiness and dislike perceptible in the old man's tones that told but too plainly the advancing...
2. CHAPTER II.Casual mention has been made of one "Fred," who was the eldest child--and only surviving son--of Edward Wilson. He had left the forest cabin only a few minutes before the advent...
3. CHAPTER III.John Stevens felt not a little concern as he strode along the grass-grown trail that Fred Wilson had so lately traversed. The discovery made by the latter was truly a momentous...
4. CHAPTER IV.Tobe Castor sat down to the table and without ceremony began what he would have termed a "square meal", eating as though his whimsical assertion was true--that he had not eaten...
5. CHAPTER V.They pause at the edge of a considerable clearing, and gaze out upon it. A rude log-cabin stands here at the foot of a good-sized hill. In the darkness, it seems as though there...
6. CHAPTER VI.As Dusky Dick turned from the loft, after his fruitless search, a loud, shrill yell from one of his braves without, told him that the trail had been found. He uttered a little c...
7. CHAPTER VII.Fred was probably the most anxious one of the party, for he knew, better far than they, the real extent of the peril that menaced. He knew that they would be fortunate indeed, w...
8. CHAPTER VIII.With painfully throbbing heart, Fred Wilson left his companions and hastened along the narrow Trace toward the blazing cabin, to learn the fate of his family. He dreaded the wor...
9. CHAPTER IX.Tobe Castor keenly watched the slowly approaching red-skin. He could long since have disposed of him by a rifle-shot, had he felt so inclined; but that he did not choose to do....
10. CHAPTER X.Fred Wilson little guessed the good his daring course had accomplished for his friends, or he would not have so bitterly cursed his foolhardy daring in thus running into such a...
11. CHAPTER XI.Tobe Castor led the way at a rapid pace, his tall form making some fairly wonderful leaps, doubling up in order to carry his long legs clear of the dense weeds and shrubs. At an...
12. CHAPTER XII.It was a thrilling moment. Death stared the borderers full in the face, yet they did not flinch. To do so would be annihilation, and full well they knew that.