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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