Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
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Alger Horatio Jr.. Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
CHAPTER I. THE POST OFFICE AT WAYNEBORO
CHAPTER II. HERBERT’S CHANCE
CHAPTER III. A PRODIGAL SON
CHAPTER IV. HERBERT LOSES HIS PLACE
CHAPTER V. EBEN’S SCHEME
CHAPTER VI. HERBERT’S GOOD LUCK
CHAPTER VII. EBEN GROWS ENVIOUS
CHAPTER VIII. EBEN’S ASSURANCE
CHAPTER IX. THE SOLITARY FARMHOUSE
CHAPTER X. AN EXCITING SCENE
CHAPTER XI. TRIED FOR THEFT
CHAPTER XII. EBEN’S TRUMP CARD
CHAPTER XIII. EBEN’S LAST HOPE FAILS
CHAPTER XIV. A TRIP TO BOSTON
CHAPTER XV. AN OBLIGING GUIDE
CHAPTER XVI. A NEW BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER XVII. AN ACCEPTABLE PRESENT
CHAPTER XVIII. A THIEF IN TROUBLE
CHAPTER XIX. EBENEZER GRAHAM’S GRIEF
CHAPTER XX. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN CHICAGO
CHAPTER XXI. COL. WARNER
CHAPTER XXII. A MOUNTAIN STAGE
CHAPTER XXIII. A STARTLING REVELATION
CHAPTER XXIV. A MORNING WALK
CHAPTER XXV. MELVILLE MAKES A SENSATION
CHAPTER XXVI. A COUNCIL OF WAR
CHAPTER XXVII. COL. WARNER CHANGES FRONT
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONSPIRATORS IN COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXIX. A NEW HOME IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER XXX. A TERRIBLE MOMENT
CHAPTER XXXI. JACK HOLDEN ON THE INDIAN QUESTION
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BLAZING STAR MINE
CHAPTER XXXIII. GOOD NEWS FROM THE MINE
CHAPTER XXXIV. TWO OLD ACQUAINTANCES REAPPEAR
CHAPTER XXXV. MELVILLE IN PERIL
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE MINE IS SOLD
CHAPTER XXXVII. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONCLUSION
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Herbert left the house of Squire Walsingham in a sober frame of mind. He saw clearly that his mother would not long remain in office, and without her official income they would find it hard to get along. To be sure, she received a pension of eight dollars a month, in consideration of her husband’s services in the war, but eight dollars would not go far towards supporting their family, small as it was. There were other means of earning a living, to be sure, but Wayneboro was an agricultural town mainly, and unless he hired out on a farm there seemed no way open to him, while the little sewing his mother might be able to procure would probably pay her less than a dollar a week.
The blow fell sooner than he expected. In the course of the next week Mrs. Carr was notified that Ebenezer Graham had been appointed her successor, and she was directed to turn over the papers and property of the office to him.
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The storekeeper held up both hands in dismay.
“Three dollars a week for a boy!” he exclaimed.
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