# Where the strange trails go down

Author: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879-1957

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27404

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Where+the+strange+trails+go+down+Powell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When I was a small boy I spent my summers at the quaint old fishing-village of Mattapoisett, on Buzzard's Bay. Next door to the house we occupied stood a low-roofed, unpretentious dwelling, white as an old-time clipper ship, with bright green blinds. I can still catch the fragrance of the lilacs by the gate. The fine old doorway, brass-knockered, arched by a spray of crimson rambler, was flanked on one hand by a great conch-shell, on the other by an enormous specimen of branch-coral, thus subtly intimating to passers-by that the owner of the house had been in "foreign parts." A distinctly nautical atmosphere was lent to the broad, deck-like verandah by a ship's barometer, a chart of Cape...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/where-the-strange-trails-go-down-27404/chapters/12/index.md)