Category: Historical Novels
I The Road to Luscombe II Monsieur De Fronsac III A Fight in Luscombe Market IV Congleton's Hollow V A Midnight Excursion VI Signals VII The Best-Laid Schemes VIII Congleton's Folly IX Close Quarters X A Prisoner of France XI A Break for Freedom XII The Capture of the *Glorieu...
Jack climbed the cliff and arrived at the Hollow just as dawn was breaking. It was a misty morning; the shrubs and grass were thickly besprinkled with frost; and he was glad he...
11. Part 11"I won't peach," said Jack, laughing. "Speak freely? Of course you can. And you'd better tell me all about it now. You look as uneasy as if you were sitting on pins."
4. Part 4De Fronsac's room was just below, on the ground floor. It had once been a parlor, but little used, and when the tutor begged to have it for his bedroom, Mrs. Bastable made no ob...
7. Part 7Who were they? Jack wondered. What was their real connection with De Fronsac? What would they do with him? What would Babbage and the men at the boat do when he did not return?...
10. Part 10Jack took his leave, very well pleased with the result of the interview. He returned to the _Glorieuse_, waited until a lieutenant was sent by the admiral to take charge of her,...
5. Part 5"I'm pretty sure it's at Luscombe. But 'twill be rather hard to determine exactly in the darkness. Run her in a little toward shore, so that we can take a look at things."
2. Part 2"Why, if they did, cousin, there'd be a chance for you. I'd like to see the yeomanry cavalry dashing at 'em as they landed, sabers out, cut and thrust, ding-dong, over you go. O...
3. Part 3"Chok' it all!" cried one of his companions, a sturdily built, black-browed, bullet-headed fisher youth of some eighteen years. "If so be you woan't fight, Billy Gudgeon, I will...
1. Part 1I The Road to Luscombe II Monsieur De Fronsac III A Fight in Luscombe Market IV Congleton's Hollow V A Midnight Excursion VI Signals VII The Best-Laid Schemes VIII Congleton's F...
12. Part 12Unconscious of the bo'sun's melancholy reflections, Jack was hurrying toward the village. There he again hired the gig, and drove once more over the same road, leaving Middleton...
9. Part 9It was a race between them. The other boats were some distance astern, for two, being without oars, were being towed by the remaining two. In the two foremost boats the men were...
8. Part 8It was a sloping roof, and Jack made up his mind to crawl down it until he came to a chimney of the outbuilding, from which a thin spiral of smoke was rising. But he waited unti...
13. Part 13The two forces came together with a shock. Babbage dropped his cutlass and flung his powerful arms around the skipper. They swayed for a moment, then fell together with a tremen...