Category: Historical Novels
Santa Barbara lies far to leeward, with a coast facing to the north and east. It is the richest of the sugar countries. Plantations cover all the lowland along its seven hundred miles of seaboard, then above the lowland is foothill, covered with forest, rising to the Sierras o...
Santa Barbara lies far to leeward, with a coast facing to the north and east. It is the richest of the sugar countries. Plantations cover all the lowland along its seven hundred...
2. PART TWO“I didn’t half like that fellow’s looks,” he muttered. “If there are thieves about, he might well be their advance agent come to spy out the land. Besides, kidnapping ladies is...
3. PART THREEWhen Sard found that his bicycle was gone, he thought that the lodge-keepers had taken it within the lodge. He knocked at the lodge door to ask; getting no answer, he looked wit...
4. PART FOURAs soon as Sard was free, he went ashore to see Messrs. Wrattson & Willis’s agents. He was puzzled by the _Pathfinder’s_ not being in the port. She could not be overdue, he thou...
5. did. I go to the inn near the river, the Hunt and Hounds; then I go on“I know the outside of your home very well, then,” he said. “It’s called The Murreys from the mulberry trees. Whenever I go on the river there, I land in one of the fields below...