The Scouts of the Valley
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Altsheler Joseph Alexander. The Scouts of the Valley
CHAPTER I. THE LONE CANOE
CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND
CHAPTER III. THE HUT ON THE ISLET
CHAPTER IV. THE RED CHIEFS
CHAPTER V. THE IROQUOIS TOWN
CHAPTER VI. THE EVIL SPIRIT’S WORK
CHAPTER VII. CATHARINE MONTOUR
CHAPTER VIII. A CHANGE OF TENANTS
CHAPTER IX. WYOMING
CHAPTER X. THE BLOODY ROCK
CHAPTER XI. THE MELANCHOLY FLIGHT
CHAPTER XII. THE SHADES OF DEATH
CHAPTER XIII. A FOREST PAGE
CHAPTER XIV. THE PURSUIT ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER XV. “THE ALCOVE”
CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST BLOW
CHAPTER XVII. THE DESERTED CABIN
CHAPTER XVIII. HENRY’S SLIDE
CHAPTER XIX. THE SAFE RETURN
CHAPTER XX. A GLOOMY COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXI. BATTLE OF THE CHEMUNG
CHAPTER XXII. LITTLE BEARD’S TOWN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FINAL FIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. DOWN THE OHIO
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Henry slept until a rosy light, filtering through the leaves, fell upon his face. Then he sprang up, folded the blanket once more upon his back, and looked about him. Nothing had come in the night to disturb him, no enemy was near, and the morning sun was bright and beautiful. The venison was exhausted, but he bathed his face in the brook and resumed his journey, traveling with a long, swift stride that carried him at great speed.
The boy was making for a definite point, one that he knew well, although nearly all the rest of this wilderness was strange to him. The country here was rougher than it usually is in the great valley to the west, and as he advanced it became yet more broken, range after range of steep, stony hills, with fertile but narrow little valleys between. He went on without hesitation for at least two hours, and then stopping under a great oak he uttered a long, whining cry, much like the howl of a wolf.
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“Mebbe be saw some kind uv a sign, an’ has followed it,” said the shiftless one hopefully. “If anything looked mysterious an’ troublesome, Jim would want to hunt it down.”
“I hope so,” said Henry, “but we’ve got to go back to the camp now and report failure. Perhaps he’ll show up to-morrow, but I don’t like it, Sol, I don’t like it!”
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