The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE AMERICA MERCHANT
CHAPTER II. JACK BALLISTER
CHAPTER III. JACK AND HIS UNCLE
CHAPTER IV. CAPTAIN BUTTS
CHAPTER V. KIDNAPPED
CHAPTER VI. ABOARD THE ARUNDEL
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE OCEAN
CHAPTER VIII. TO THE END OF THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER IX. IN VIRGINIA
CHAPTER X. INTO BONDAGE
CHAPTER XI. MARLBOROUGH
CHAPTER XII. DOWN THE RIVER
CHAPTER XIII. THE ROOST
CHAPTER XIV. IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XV. LIFE AT THE ROOST
CHAPTER XVI. JACK’S MASTER IN THE TOILS
CHAPTER XVII. JACK RIDES ON A MISSION
CHAPTER XVIII. MISS ELEANOR PARKER
CHAPTER XIX. THE VISITOR AGAIN
CHAPTER XX. THE WILD TURKEY
CHAPTER XXI. THE STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XXII. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXIII. A MEETING
CHAPTER XXIV. AT MARLBOROUGH
CHAPTER XXV. IN CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PIRATE’S LAIR
CHAPTER XXVII. AT BATH TOWN
CHAPTER XXVIII. IN NORTH CAROLINA – IN VIRGINIA
CHAPTER XXIX. AN EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XXX. THE ATTEMPT
CHAPTER XXXI. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXXII. A SCENE
CHAPTER XXXIII. HOW JACK RESOLVED
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE BEGINNING OF THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XXXVI. A STOP OVER NIGHT
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SECOND DAY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE THIRD DAY
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE FOURTH DAY
CHAPTER XL. FIAT JUSTITIA
CHAPTER XLI. THE BOAT ADRIFT
CHAPTER XLII. THE NEXT DAY
CHAPTER XLIII. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XLIV. RISING FORTUNES
CHAPTER XLV. PREPARATION
CHAPTER XLVI. THE FIGHT
CHAPTER XLVII. IN THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XLVIII. JACK MEETS SOME OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XLIX. THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER L. THE RETURN
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HEZEKIAH TIPTON had been a merchant in the America trade for upwards of forty years. He had shipped hundreds of servants to the Americas; they were as much a part of his cargo as tea or broad-cloth or books or silk stuffs.
Maybe he was not always scrupulously careful to know whence came some of the servants he thus transported. He was reasonably honest in his dealings, as the times went, and he would not often buy a servant from a crimp if he knew positively that the crimp had kidnapped the man. But if he was not positively sure, he would not go out of his way to inquire into things that did not concern him. He would either take the servant offered for sale, or else he would not take him; but he would not trouble himself to ask how the crimp obtained the man, or whether the man himself was or was not really willing to emigrate to the colonies.
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Mr. Stetson, the rector, used sometimes to talk to him almost like an echo of that inner accusing voice. “’Tis a vast pity, Jack,” he would sometimes say, “that such a great, stout fellow as thou art should live so in useless idleness. If nothing else better, why do you not study your books?” And Jack would be very uncomfortable with the heavy feeling that he had left some part of duty undone.
He used often to go to supper at the rectory. He felt more at ease there – less big-jointed and clumsy than almost anywhere else. And besides, he very heartily enjoyed the good things he had to eat at such times, for Deborah set a very poor and skimpy table at his uncle’s house. They generally had preserved ginger and thin sweet cakes at these suppers at the rectory, and Jack used sometimes to contrive to slip a couple of cakes into his pocket to nibble after he got home.
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