Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

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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