Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery
by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
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About this eBook
- Author
- Roberts, Theodore Goodridge, 1877-1953
- Credits
- D Alexander, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41122
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41122
- Release Date
- October 21, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.RAYTON:
- 2.By THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS — Author of "A Captain of Raleigh's," "Comrades of the Trails," "Red Feathers," etc. — Nell Harley
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.A BACKWOODS MYSTERY
- 6.CHAPTER I — THE GAME THAT WAS NOT FINISHED — "JIM HARLEY SNATCHED UP THE CARD"
- 7.CHAPTER II — JIM HARLEY TELLS AN OLD STORY
- 8.CHAPTER III — DAVID MARSH DECIDES TO SPEAK—AND DOESN'T
- 9.CHAPTER IV — THE TRAPPER'S CONFESSION
- 10.CHAPTER V — DOCTOR NASH'S SUSPICIONS—YOUNG MARSH'S MISFORTUNE — "HE ADVANCED SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, A PITIFUL FIGURE"
- 11.CHAPTER VI — DAVID TAKES A MISFORTUNE IN A POOR SPIRIT
- 12.CHAPTER VII — MR. BANKS TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — RAYTON GOES TO BORROW A SAUCEPAN
- 14.CHAPTER IX — RAYTON CONFESSES
- 15.CHAPTER X — RED CROSSES AGAIN
- 16.CHAPTER XI — AN UNFORTUNATE MOMENT FOR THE DOCTOR — "PLUNGED AT RAYTON, WITH HIS FISTS FLYING"
- 17.CHAPTER XII — RAYTON IS REMINDED OF THE RED CROSSES
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — CAPTAIN WIGMORE SUGGESTS AN AMAZING THING
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — FEAR FORGOTTEN—AND RECALLED — "'IT IS BECAUSE—BECAUSE I CARE SO FOR YOU—'"
- 20.CHAPTER XV — MR. BANKS IS STUNG
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE LITTLE CAT AND THE BIG MOUSE — "THEN HE HALTED AND RECOILED, CLUTCHING AT THE COLD WALLS!"
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — DICK GOODINE RETURNS UNEXPECTEDLY
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — THE CAPTAIN'S CHARGE
- 25.CHAPTER XX — THE CHOSEN INSTRUMENT OF FATE
- 26.CHAPTER XXI — THE DEATH OF THE CURSE
- 27.CHAPTER XXII — IN THE WAY OF HAPPINESS — THE END.
- 28.WORKS OF Theodore Goodridge Roberts
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