A Waif of the Mountains
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Ellis Edward Sylvester. A Waif of the Mountains
CHAPTER I. AT NEW CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER II. WHAT THE BLIZZARD BROUGHT TO NEW CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER III. A SLIP OR TWO
CHAPTER IV. SUITING THE PUNISHMENT TO THE CRIME
CHAPTER V. A HUNDRED FOLD
CHAPTER VI. TEACHER AND PUPIL
CHAPTER VII. PUPIL AND TEACHER
CHAPTER VIII. THE PASSING YEARS
CHAPTER IX. THE CLOUD OF WAR
CHAPTER X. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
CHAPTER XI. WAITING
CHAPTER XII. HOME AGAIN
CHAPTER XIII. YOUNG LOVE’S DREAM
CHAPTER XIV. THE THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER XV. COMRADES IN SORROW
CHAPTER XVI. NOW
CHAPTER XVII. THE PURSUERS
CHAPTER XVIII. A CLOSE CALL
CHAPTER XIX. A COLLISION
CHAPTER XX. THE CAMP FIRE
CHAPTER XXI. STRANGERS
CHAPTER XXII. FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXIII. VOSE ADAMS
CHAPTER XXIV. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY
CHAPTER XXV. INSTINCT OR REASON
CHAPTER XXVI. AT BAY
CHAPTER XXVII. NO BRAVER DEED EVER WAS DONE
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A moment after the hail was heard from the roof, the muffled noise which accompanied it ceased. The stranger groping about in the snowy gloom had stepped off the roof into the huge drift outside the Heavenly Bower, and a minute later, lifted the latch of the door and pushed in among the astonished miners. They saw the figure of a sturdy man holding something in his arms, so wrapped round with blankets and coverings that no one could tell its nature. He stamped the snow from his boots, shook himself like a shaggy dog, then walked heavily to the chair which Budge Isham placed near the fire for him, and almost fell into it.
“Good evening, friends,” he said in a grave voice; “It was no fault of mine that I tried at first to enter by the roof.”
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“Yes, my child.”
“Haven’t you got any little girl like me?”
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