Real Gold: A Story of Adventure
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Fenn George Manville. Real Gold: A Story of Adventure
Chapter One. A Chat in a Boat
Chapter Two. A Failure
Chapter Three. Preparing to Start
Chapter Four. Three Shadows
Chapter Five. Perry is Startled
Chapter Six. A Night Alarm
Chapter Seven. The Slippery Way
Chapter Eight. Signs of Suspicion
Chapter Nine. Cyril Scents Danger
Chapter Ten. John Manning Thinks
Chapter Eleven. The Peril Thickens
Chapter Twelve. At Bay
Chapter Thirteen. In Treasure Land
Chapter Fourteen. The Night-Watch
Chapter Fifteen. Collecting the Gold
Chapter Sixteen. Preparing for Flight
Chapter Seventeen. Perry’s Horror
Chapter Eighteen. Adventures of a Night
Chapter Nineteen. The Dark Way
Chapter Twenty. Waiting for Daylight
Chapter Twenty One. The Pursuit
Chapter Twenty Two. Perry’s Peril
Chapter Twenty Three. At the Bivouac
Chapter Twenty Four. The Cave’s Mouth
Chapter Twenty Five. Between Two Stools
Chapter Twenty Six. In the Gorge
Chapter Twenty Seven. Ready for the Worst
Chapter Twenty Eight. Nature is Mistress
Chapter Twenty Nine. A Military Movement
Chapter Thirty. Trapped
Chapter Thirty One. Father and Son
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Dinner was over at Captain Norton’s. Mrs Norton had left the dining-room, after begging her son and his visitor not to go out in the broiling heat. The boy had promised that he would not, and after he had sat listening to Colonel Campion’s – a keen grey-haired man, thin, wiry in the extreme, and giving promise of being extremely active – talk to his father about the preparations for his trip up into the mountains, Cyril gave Perry a kick under the table, and rose.
Taking the sharp jar upon his shin to mean telegraphy and the sign, “Come on,” Perry rose as well, and the two boys, forgetful of all advice, went and sat in the dry garden, where every shrub and plant seemed to be crying out for water, and looked as if it were being prepared for a hortus siccus beloved of botanists, and where the sun came down almost hot enough to fry.
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“Oh no, sir. I’m light and strong, and – ”
“Yes? And what? You are afraid of outstaying your welcome? Nonsense, boy; you’ll be conferring a favour upon us. I shall be glad for Cil to have your company. He likes you.”
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