The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys

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Brill Ethel Claire. The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys

I. THE BIRCH BARK LETTER

II. THE SLOOP “OTTER”

III. DRIVEN BEFORE THE GALE

IV. THE ISLE ROYALE

V. THE HALF-BREED BROTHER

VI. DOWN THE NORTHWEST SHORE

VII. AT WAUSWAUGONING

VIII. THE BLOOD-STAINED TUNIC

IX. THE GIANT IROQUOIS

X. THE LOOMING SAILBOAT

XI. THE FIRE-LIT ORGY

XII. THE HUNGRY PORCUPINE

XIII. THE PAINTED THWART

XIV. SAILING TOWARDS THE SUNRISE

XV. THE RIFT IN THE ROCK

XVI. THE CACHE

XVII. THE SEALED PACKET

XVIII. THE FLEEING CANOE

XIX. THE BAY OF MANITOS

XX. HUGH CLIMBS THE RIDGE

XXI. THE GRINNING INDIAN

XXII. BLAISE FOLLOWS HUGH’S TRAIL

XXIII. A CAPTIVE

XXIV. IN THE HANDS OF THE GIANT

XXV. THE CHIEF OF MINONG

XXVI. ESCAPE

XXVII. WHAT BLAISE OVERHEARD

XXVIII. CONFUSING THE TRAIL

XXIX. THE CEDAR BARRIER

XXX. THE FLIGHT FROM MINONG

XXXI. WITH WIND AND WAVES

XXXII. THE FIRE AT THE END OF THE TRAIL

XXXIII. THE CAPTURE OF MONGA

XXXIV. MONGA’S STORY

XXXV. THE FALL OF THE GIANT

XXXVI. HOW BLAISE MISSED HIS REVENGE

XXXVII. THE PACKET IS OPENED

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His mind awhirl with conflicting thoughts and feelings, Hugh Beaupré left Cadotte. The preceding autumn Hugh had come from Montreal to the Sault de Ste. Marie. Very reluctantly his aunt had let him go to be with his father in the western wilderness for a year or two of that rough, adventurous life. Hugh’s Scotch mother had died when he was less than a year old, nearly sixteen years before the opening of this story. His French father, a restless man of venturesome spirit, had left the child with the mother’s sister, and had taken to the woods, the then untamed wilderness of the upper Great Lakes and the country beyond. In fifteen years he had been to Montreal to see his son but three times. During each brief stay, his stories of the west had been eagerly listened to by the growing boy. On his father’s last visit to civilization, Hugh had begged to be allowed to go back to Lake Superior with him. The elder Beaupré, thinking the lad too young, had put him off. He had consented, however, to his son’s joining him at the Sault de Ste. Marie a year from the following autumn, when Hugh would be sixteen.

Delayed by bad weather, the boy had arrived at the meeting place late, only to find that his father had not been seen at the Sault since his brief stop on his return from Montreal the year before. The disappointed lad tried to wait patiently, but the elder Beaupré did not come or send any message. At last, word arrived that he had left the Grand Portage, at the other end of Lake Superior, some weeks before, not to come to the Sault but to go in the opposite direction to his winter trading ground west of the lake. There was no chance for Hugh to follow, even had he known just where his father intended to winter. By another trader going west and by a Northwest Company messenger, the boy sent letters, hoping that in some manner they might reach Jean Beaupré. All winter Hugh had remained at the Sault waiting for some reply, but none of any sort had come until the arrival of the strange packet he was now carrying in his hand. This message from his younger brother seemed to prove that his father must have received at least one of Hugh’s letters. Otherwise he would not have known that his elder son was at the Sault. But there was no explanation of Jean Beaupré’s failure to meet the boy there.

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“Do you know anything of working a ship?” Captain Bennett asked.

“I have sailed a skiff on the St. Lawrence,” was the boy’s reply. “I can learn and I can obey orders.”

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