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Maria Thompson Daviess. The Daredevil
The Daredevil
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
SPARKLING WAVES OVER HIGH EXPLOSIVES
CHAPTER II
VIVE LA FRANCE
CHAPTER III
THAT MR. G. SLADE OF DETROIT
CHAPTER IV
THE IMPOSSIBLE UNCLE ROBERT
CHAPTER V
“HERE’S MY BOY, GOVERNOR”
CHAPTER VI
“WE BOTH NEED YOU”
CHAPTER VII
THE GIRL BUNCH
CHAPTER VIII
IN THE DRESS OF MAGNIFICENCE
CHAPTER IX
“O’ER THE LAND OF THE FREE—”
CHAPTER X
VITRIOL AND THE HOODOO
CHAPTER XI
BUSINESS AND PIE
CHAPTER XII
THE BEAUTIFUL MADAM WHITWORTH
CHAPTER XIII
BROTHERS BY BLOODSHED
CHAPTER XIV
TO BEAR MEN AND TO SAVE THEM
CHAPTER XV
“BEHOLD, I AM A SPY!”
CHAPTER XVI
“IMMEDIATELY I COME TO YOU!”
CHAPTER XVII
THE TALL TIMBERS OF OLD HARPETH
CHAPTER XVIII
THE CAMP HEAVEN
CHAPTER XIX
ALL IS LOST
CHAPTER XX
“YOU ARE—MYSELF!”
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Maria Thompson Daviess
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Did it take all—all of the money to land, Nannette? Not all!” I cried as I stretched out my hand to her. I did not know as I now do, that the money would have been returned to Nannette had she waited with patience and not made a hurry of returning to her nurslings.
“All, Mademoiselle,” were the words with which she answered me, and for some very long moments I stood dazed and struggled in the waves of that adventure I had thought to be life.
