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George E. Rochester. The Vultures of Desolate Island
The Vultures of Desolate Island
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
MY MISSION
CHAPTER II
IN WHICH I PASS THROUGH THE GATES OF FOUR GABLES
CHAPTER III
I MEET ERKUNSTELT
CHAPTER IV
I INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER V
I AM TAKEN PRISONER
CHAPTER VI
WE FLEW NORTHWARDS
CHAPTER VII
MY DESPERATE VENTURE
CHAPTER VIII
I REACH DESOLATE ISLAND
CHAPTER IX
I MEET ERKUNSTELT ON DESOLATE ISLAND
CHAPTER X
THE FLYING BEETLE APPEARS
CHAPTER XI
I AM FOLLOWED
CHAPTER XII
I REACH SKAGMIR
CHAPTER XIII
I SPEAK WITH KURZ
CHAPTER XIV
ON THE “SCOTTISH CHIEFTAIN”
CHAPTER XV
HOW I RETURNED TO DESOLATE ISLAND
CHAPTER XVI
I AGAIN MEET THE FLYING BEETLE
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George E. Rochester
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Four Gables stood less than half a mile away and I was able to command a view of its gates. But during those hours that I watched I saw no one pass either in or out.
I had much to occupy my mind. My first attempt to secure a job there had ignominiously failed. A second attempt must be made—but how? I racked my brains, but no answer to the problem could I find. If Erkunstelt desired privacy he certainly had a faithful and highly efficient watchdog in the wrinkled Henri—for such I took the old fellow to be.
