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Cecil Bernard Rutley. Sinister Island
Sinister Island
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A Messenger of Fate
CHAPTER II. The Mysterious Packet
CHAPTER III. Midnight Visitors
CHAPTER IV. Strange Footprints
CHAPTER V. Kidnapped
CHAPTER VI. The House of Horror
CHAPTER VII. Jill
CHAPTER VIII. The Black Pirate
CHAPTER IX. Allies
CHAPTER X. A Terrible Discovery
CHAPTER XI. Castaways
CHAPTER XII. Sinister Island
CHAPTER XIII. Terror of the Night
CHAPTER XIV. Sea Treasure
CHAPTER XV. Gone without Trace
CHAPTER XVI. The Secret of the Island
CHAPTER XVII. Alone
CHAPTER XVIII. A Message into Space
CHAPTER XIX. The Thousandth Chance
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Cecil Bernard Rutley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“No, he refused to tell her. That was strange, wasn’t it? I wonder why.”
“H’m! a bit of a mystery man. Still that settles your right to the map, Dawn. If we don’t know who he was we can’t advertise for relatives, and no one will be coming forward who might lay claim to his possessions. I wonder why he withheld his name though. He may have thought other things more important, or there may have been some other reason. Probably we shall never know.” The speaker picked up the map and examined it more closely. “I don’t think this is as old as it looks, Dawn,” he went on. “The canvas is still perfectly sound, and the writing may have faded through exposure or from some other cause.”
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