In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado

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Henty George Alfred. In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado

CHAPTER I. TOM'S CHOICE

CHAPTER II. FINDING FRIENDS

CHAPTER III. ON THE PLAINS

CHAPTER IV. LEAPING HORSE

CHAPTER V. IN DANGER

CHAPTER VI. UNITED

CHAPTER VII. CHASED

CHAPTER VIII. IN SAFETY

CHAPTER IX. A BAD TIME

CHAPTER X. AN AVALANCHE

CHAPTER XI. WINTER

CHAPTER XII. THE SNOW FORT

CHAPTER XIII. A FRESH START

CHAPTER XIV. AN INDIAN ATTACK

CHAPTER XV. THE COLORADO

CHAPTER XVI. AFLOAT IN CANOES

CHAPTER XVII. THE GRAND CAÑON

CHAPTER XVIII. BACK TO DENVER

CHAPTER XIX. A FORTUNE

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"I can be of no use here, Carry. What am I good for? Why, I could not earn money enough to pay for my own food, even if we knew anyone who would help me to get a clerkship. I am too young for it yet. I would rather go before the mast than take a place in a shop. I am too young even to enlist. I know just about as much as other boys at school, and I certainly have no talent anyway, as far as I can see at present. I can sail a boat, and I won the swimming prize a month ago, and the sergeant who gives us lessons in single-stick and boxing says that he considers me his best pupil with the gloves, but all these things put together would not bring me in sixpence a week. I don't want to go away, and nothing would induce me to do so if I could be of the slightest use to you here. But can I be of any use? What is there for me to look forward to if I stay? I am sure that you would be always worrying over me if I did get some sort of situation that you would know father and mother would not have liked to see me in, and would seem to offer no chance for the future, whereas if I went out there it would not matter what I did, and anything I earned I could send home to you."

The speaker was a lad of sixteen. He and his sister, who was two years his senior, were both dressed in deep mourning, and were sitting on a bench near Southsea Castle looking across to Spithead, and the Isle of Wight stretching away behind. They had three days before followed their mother to the grave, and laid her beside their father, a lieutenant of the navy, who had died two years before. This was the first time they had left the house, where remained their four sisters—Janet, who came between Carry and Tom; Blanche, who was fourteen; Lucie, twelve; and Harriet, eight. Tom had proposed the walk.

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"Are you by yourself, or have you friends with you?"

"I am alone," Tom replied. "I am going out to join an uncle in the

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