Category: Historical Novels

Iron Hand, Chief of the Tory League; or, The Double Face

When the colonists had acquired a mastery over the savages of the wilderness, and assisted in breaking the French power on their frontier, they began to feel their manhood stirring within them, and they tacitly agreed no longer to submit to the narrow and oppressive policy of...

Chapters

7. CHAPTER VII.

Staring wildly around the apartment in which she was confined, she was unable to account for her strange position. Pressing her hot hands to her throbbing temples she tried to c...

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5. CHAPTER V.

Imogene, after her departure from the fort, sped rapidly onward, heedless of the extended branches and immense brambles that threatened every moment to drag her from her saddle....

6. CHAPTER VI.

Onward they swiftly rode, hoping at every moment to overtake their intended charge. Though they frequently listened to catch the slightest sound, however, nothing was audible sa...

3. CHAPTER III.

The ladies of the garrison for some time had been suffering _ennui_, and after holding a consultation, they resolved to petition for some change to break the monotonous life. Ac...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

In fact, the whole community was wild with excitement about an apparition that a dozen or more affirmed to have seen the previous night, pacing to and fro upon the parapets.

1. CHAPTER I.

When the colonists had acquired a mastery over the savages of the wilderness, and assisted in breaking the French power on their frontier, they began to feel their manhood stirr...

9. CHAPTER IX.

After his interview with Hank Putney, Iron Hand set out hastily to return to the rendezvous of his band. As he hurried along, a smile of exultation overspread his countenance, a...

2. CHAPTER II.

It was near midnight when Captain Sherwood and his men arrived in the vicinity of the Whig’s house. They had miscalculated the distance from the fort, and were later than was de...

10. CHAPTER X.

While all in the garrison were bathed in quiet sleep, the slumbers of Captain Sherwood were broken. After spending a night of restlessness, he arose unrefreshed from the rude be...

12. CHAPTER XII.

The morning which had first given promise of a beautiful day turned out to be quite disagreeable, and during the afternoon there was a succession of showers. The night was dark...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

On one bright spring morning about six months after the events previously related, the woods in the vicinity of Fort Ann were filled with a brilliant assemblage of Continental o...

4. CHAPTER IV.

The night had turned out dark and drear, and the lowering clouds denoted the approach of a storm. The last echo of the booming gun had scarcely died away, warning the inmates of...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Maurice Sherwood, _alias_ Iron Hand, who had committed so many villainous deeds in the past few years, and whose name had become such a terror to every household, now stood befo...