Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew

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McReynolds Robert. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew

I. UNDER THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

II. IN DAYS OF INNOCENCE

III. THROUGH MISTS OF THE SEA

IV. GRAVES GAVE UP THEIR DEAD

V. FAIREST FLOWER OF THE CORDILLERAS

VI. A HUMILIATING INCIDENT

VII. IN THE THROES OF REVOLUTION

VIII. VIVA GENERALISSIMO PIEROLA

IX. AMID THE DIN OF BATTLE

X. WE MEET AGAIN, FELICITA

XI. THE MASQUE BALL AT TIRAVAYA

XII. COWARDLY ACT OF A VILLAIN

XIII. MURDEROUS PLAN OF THE INSURGENTS

XIV. FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY

XV. IN DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE

XVI. THE SCREAMING WINDS OF NIGHT

XVII. THE BARBARIAN MEETS HIS INGOMAR

XVIII. ON SUNNY SEAS BOUND NORTH

XIX. DEATH SHIPS OF THE SEA

XX. A DAUGHTER OF THE CHEROKEES

XXI. CARSON’S BLANK PAGES IN LIFE

XXII. A VOICE FROM CENTURIES PAST

XXIII. THE TWO OLD BLACK CROWS

XXIV. THE RECKLESS HAND OF FATE

XXV. CORDS OF LOVE ARE STRONG

XXVI. WHEN THE DEATH GLOOM GATHERS

XXVII. A NIGHT OF TRAGEDIES

XXVIII. FROM OUT THE SHADOWY PAST

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As I peer into the dim past that haunts the scenes of my childhood in Aberdeen, Scotland, a thousand memories troop by like the scenes of a panorama with the footlights turned low; and when I contemplate them in a meditative hour it leaves me with as lonesome a feeling as if I had listened to the old time song, “Home Sweet Home,” which I have heard a thousand times in distant climes, sometimes sung to crowded audiences at the opera, and again by the pioneer as he rattled his prairie schooner over the plains.

It is a song that never grows old and never will so long as men leave the home of their childhood, around whose hearthstones still play ghost-like, the recollections of bye-gone years, tenderly touching their sympathies as they pause for a moment in their monied pursuits in other lands.

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When Captain McKenzie came in he asked us if it was with the consent of our parents that we made application. Being answered in the affirmative by James Mitchell, the other boy, I answered that my father and mother were dead, but my brother would sign the necessary papers.

We had been struck a glancing blow abaft midships but the damage was not serious enough to sink us. The other vessel, which proved to be the brig “Rapid,” belonging to the same company at Aberdeen, stood off until its crew ascertained the extent of our damage, then sailed away in the darkness.

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