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Charles Boardman Hawes. The Great Quest
The Great Quest
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE STRANGER
CHAPTER II. MY UNCLE BEHAVES QUEERLY
CHAPTER III. HIGGLEBY'S BARN
CHAPTER IV. SWORDS AND SHIPS
CHAPTER V. A MYSTERIOUS PROJECT
II. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
CHAPTER VI. GOOD-BYE TO OLD HAUNTS AND FACES
CHAPTER VII. A WILD NIGHT
CHAPTER VIII. THE BRIG ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IX. AN OLD SEA SONG
III. A LOW LAND IN THE EAST
CHAPTER X. MATTERSON
CHAPTER XI. NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER XII. CAPTAIN NORTH AGAIN
CHAPTER XIII. ISSUES SHARPLY DRAWN
CHAPTER XIV. LAND HO!
IV. THREE DESPERATE MEN
CHAPTER XV. THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XVI. STRANGEST OF ALL
CHAPTER XVII. THE MAN FROM THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER XVIII. A WARNING DEFIED
CHAPTER XIX. BURNED BRIDGES
V. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
CHAPTER XX. UP STREAM
CHAPTER XXI. A GRIM SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXII. SIEGE
CHAPTER XXIII. SORTIE
VI. FOR OUR VERY LIVES
CHAPTER XXIV. SPEARS IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXV. CARDS AND CHESS
CHAPTER XXVI. AN UNSEEN FOE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE FORT FALLS
CHAPTER XXVIII. DOWN THE CURRENT
CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIGHT AT THE LANDING
VII. THE LONG ROAD HOME
CHAPTER XXX. THE CRUISER
CHAPTER XXXI. A PASSAGE AT ARMS
CHAPTER XXXII. WESTWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE DOOR OF DISASTER
CHAPTER XXXIV. AN OLD, OLD STORY
CHAPTER XXXV. EHEU FUGACES!
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Charles Boardman Hawes
A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea
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Why should not a man come home to his native place to enjoy the prosperity of his later years? we argued. It was the most natural thing in the world; and when Cornelius Gleazen talked of foreign wars and the state of the country and the deaths of Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, and of the duel between Mr. Clay and Mr. Randolph, the most intelligent of us listened with respect, and found occasion in his shrewd observations and trenchant comment to rejoice that Topham had so able a son to return to her in the full power of his maturity.
There was even talk of sending him to Congress, and that it was not idle gossip I know because three politicians from Boston came to town and conferred with our selectmen and Judge Bordman over their wine at the inn for a long evening; and Peter Nuttles, whose sister waited on them, spread the story to the ends of the county.
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