Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound; A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils

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Emerson Alice B.. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound; A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils

CHAPTER I – TEA AND A TOAST

CHAPTER II – SUCH A DREAM!

CHAPTER III – IT’S ALL OVER!

CHAPTER IV – TWO EXCITING THINGS

CHAPTER V – THE SECRET

CHAPTER VI – A NEW EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER VII – THE ZEPPELIN

CHAPTER VIII – AFLOAT

CHAPTER IX – QUEER FOLKS

CHAPTER X – WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

CHAPTER XI – DEVELOPMENTS

CHAPTER XII – THE MAN IN THE MOTOR BOAT

CHAPTER XIII – IT COMES TO A HEAD

CHAPTER XIV – A BATTLE IN THE AIR

CHAPTER XV – ABANDONED

CHAPTER XVI – ON THE EDGE OF TRAGEDY

CHAPTER XVII – BOARDED

CHAPTER XVIII – THE CONSPIRACY LAID BARE

CHAPTER XIX – TOM CAMERON TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER XX – THE STORM BREAKS

CHAPTER XXI – THE WRECK

CHAPTER XXII – ADRIFT

CHAPTER XXIII – AT THE MOMENT OF NEED

CHAPTER XXIV – COUNTERPLOT

CHAPTER XXV – HOME AS FOUND

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The lights in the day coach had just been lit and she was looking out into the gathering darkness as the train rolled slowly into Cheslow, the New England town to which her fare had been paid when her friends back in the town where she was born had decided that little Ruth Fielding should be sent to her single living relative, Uncle Jabez Potter.

He was her mother’s uncle, really, and a “great uncle” was a relative that Ruth could not quite visualize at that time. It was not until she had come to the old Red Mill on the bank of the Lumano River that the child found out that a great uncle was a tall, craggy kind of man, who wore clothing from which the mill dust rose in little clouds when he moved hurriedly, and with the same dust seemingly ground into every wrinkle and line of his harsh countenance.

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“La, la, la!” she murmured. “It is sad! That so-heavy stone! Ah, the bone must be broken! Poor child!”

“Isn’t she dead?” gasped Helen. “No, no! She is very bad wounded-perhaps. See – let us turn her over – ”

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