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Chapter 1 A LOST LANDMARK

Word Count: 1558    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

children, unto the third and fourt

llowed me always. This is the cu

r than the silence of the grave, even if I could have buried and bewailed him duly, the common business of

s quite made up to see me safe in my new home, and then himself to start again for still

ed to the leader of our wagon train, at a place where a dark, narrow gorge departed from the moilsome mountain track. "My reasons are my own; let no man trouble himself about t

t. "Forgive and forget, Sir; forgive and forget. What is a hot word spoken hotly?

own in a moment that it must be so, for my father never argued. Argument, to his mind, was a very nice amusement for the weak. My spirits rose as he swung his bear-skin bag upon his shoulder, and the last sound of the laboring caravan g

ough life, so pent in trackless tracts, and pressed together by perpetual peril, every body's manners had been growing free and easy. Every man had been compelled to tell, as truly as he could, the story of his life thus far, to amuse his fellow-creatures-eve

sign of fear, the speaker would have been insulted. But his manner and the power of his look were such that, even af

ravan was lost behind a cloud of rocks, and we two stood in the wild

I know? You have done i

ou know what I think all that. It is for you,

d me, as if I were a little child instead of a maiden just fifteen. This he had never done before, and it mad

ad a stern, cold father. So will you meet the world all th

er; but now, in looking back, it is so easy to see into things. At

y for certain. Whether the time were long or short, it seemed as if it would never end. My father believed that he knew the way to the house of an old settler, at the western foot of the mountains, who had treated

rk, and finding not a trace of it. Although his will was so very strong, his temper was good abo

any tree that grows in Europe, or Africa even. From the plains it can be seen for a hundred miles or more. It stands higher up the mountainside than any oth

, but scrubby bushes and yellow tuf

It is a very straight tree, and regular, like a mighty column, except that on the northern side the wind fro

ee any tree half as large as a broo

y. We must cast back for a mile or two

ance from him stopped my murmuring. And the next thing I

stinct. It is a fearful thing to think of-now that I can think of it-but to save my own little worthless life I must have drained every drop of water from his flat half-gallon jar. The wate

re was none forth-coming. All we had to guide us was a little traveler's compass (whose needle stuck fast on the pivot with sand) and the glaring sun, when he came to sight behind the hot, dry, driving clouds. The clouds were ver

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1 Chapter 1 A LOST LANDMARK2 Chapter 2 A PACIFIC SUNSET3 Chapter 3 A STURDY COLONIST4 Chapter 4 THE "KING OF THE MOUNTAINS."5 Chapter 5 UNCLE SAM6 Chapter 6 A BRITISHER7 Chapter 7 DISCOMFITURE8 Chapter 8 A DOUBTFUL LOSS9 Chapter 9 WATER-SPOUT10 Chapter 10 A NUGGET11 Chapter 11 ROVERS12 Chapter 12 GOLD AND GRIEF13 Chapter 13 THE SAWYER'S PRAYER14 Chapter 14 NOT FAR TO SEEK15 Chapter 15 BROUGHT TO BANK16 Chapter 16 FIRM AND INFIRM17 Chapter 17 HARD AND SOFT18 Chapter 18 OUT OF THE GOLDEN GATE19 Chapter 19 INSIDE THE CHANNEL20 Chapter 20 BRUNTSEA21 Chapter 21 LISTLESS22 Chapter 22 BETSY BOWEN23 Chapter 23 BETSY'S TALE24 Chapter 24 No.2425 Chapter 25 No.2526 Chapter 26 AT THE BANK27 Chapter 27 COUSIN MONTAGUE28 Chapter 28 A CHECK29 Chapter 29 AT THE PUMP30 Chapter 30 COCKS AND COXCOMBS31 Chapter 31 ADRIFT32 Chapter 32 AT HOME33 Chapter 33 LORD CASTLEWOOD34 Chapter 34 SHOXFORD35 Chapter 35 THE SEXTON36 Chapter 36 A SIMPLE QUESTION37 Chapter 37 SOME ANSWER TO IT38 Chapter 38 A WITCH39 Chapter 39 NOT AT HOME40 Chapter 40 THE MAN AT LAST41 Chapter 41 A STRONG TEMPTATION42 Chapter 42 MASTER WITHYPOOL43 Chapter 43 GOING TO THE BOTTOM44 Chapter 44 HERMETICALLY SEALED45 Chapter 45 CONVICTION46 Chapter 46 VAIN ZEAL47 Chapter 47 CADMEIAN VICTORY48 Chapter 48 A RETURN CALL49 Chapter 49 WANTED, A SAWYER50 Chapter 50 THE PANACEA51 Chapter 51 LIFE SINISTER52 Chapter 52 FOR LIFE, DEATH53 Chapter 53 BRUNTSEA DEFIANT54 Chapter 54 BRUNTSEA DEFEATED55 Chapter 55 A DEAD LETTER56 Chapter 56 WITH HIS OWN SWORD57 Chapter 57 FEMALE SUFFRAGE58 Chapter 58 BEYOND DESERT, AND DESERTS