Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy

Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
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Alger Horatio Jr.. Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy

CHAPTER I. AROUND THE BREAKFAST TABLE

CHAPTER II. INTRODUCING THE HERO

CHAPTER III. A COLLISION

CHAPTER IV. A DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE

CHAPTER V. THE ENVELOPE

CHAPTER VI. ON THE WAY

CHAPTER VII. A NEW HOME

CHAPTER VIII. THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC

CHAPTER IX. EXPOSING A FRAUD

CHAPTER X. THE CLOUDS GATHER

CHAPTER XI. A CRISIS

CHAPTER XII. RALPH THE RANGER

CHAPTER XIII. A MOMENT OF PERIL

CHAPTER XIV. TAKEN PRISONER

CHAPTER XV. A FOUR-FOOTED FOE

CHAPTER XVI. JUST TOO LATE

CHAPTER XVII. NEW ACQUAINTANCES

CHAPTER XVIII. A YOUNG ARISTOCRAT

CHAPTER XIX. A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER

CHAPTER XX. FACING A BURGLAR

CHAPTER XXI. HERBERT’S REWARD

CHAPTER XXII. ROBBED IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XXIII. A BUSINESS CALL

CHAPTER XXIV. FINDING A BOARDING PLACE

CHAPTER XXV. GETTING A SITUATION

CHAPTER XXVI. A FAMILY COUNCIL

CHAPTER XXVII. AT THE CONCERT

CHAPTER XXVIII. PETER GREENLEAF AGAIN

CHAPTER XXIX. SPARRING

CHAPTER XXX. AN UNEXPECTED BLOW

CHAPTER XXXI. MR. STANTON IS SURPRISED

CHAPTER XXXII. RISEN FROM THE DEAD

CHAPTER XXXIII. A FRIEND IN NEED

CHAPTER XXXIV. CONCLUSION

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If my young readers do not find the town of Waverley on the map of Ohio, they may conclude that it was too small to attract the notice of the map-makers. The village is small, consisting of about a dozen houses, a church, a schoolhouse, and, as a matter of course, one of that well-known class of stores in which everything required for the family is sold, from a dress-pattern to a pound of sugar. Outside of the village there are farmhouses, surrounded by broad acres, which keep them at respectable distances from each other, like the feudal castles of the Middle Ages. The land is good, and the farmers are thrifty and well-to-do; but probably the whole town contains less than a thousand inhabitants.

In one of the houses, near the church, lived Dr. Kent, whose letter has already been referred to. He was a skillful physician, and a very worthy man, who would have been very glad to be benevolent if his limited practice had supplied him with the requisite means. But chance had directed him to a healthy and sparsely-settled neighborhood, where he was able only to earn a respectable livelihood, and indeed found himself compelled to economize at times where he would have liked to indulge himself in expense.

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“His name is Herbert Mason, son of the Widder Mason that died two or three weeks since. Poor boy, he’s left alone in the world.”

“Where’s he stopping?” asked Holden, hardly knowing why he asked the question.

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