Лучшие романы Томаса Майна Рида / The Best of Thomas Mayne Reid
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Майн Рид. Лучшие романы Томаса Майна Рида / The Best of Thomas Mayne Reid
The Headless Horseman
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Burnt Prairie
Chapter 2. The Trail of the Lazo
Chapter 3. The Prairie Finger-Post
Chapter 4. The Black Norther
Chapter 5. The Home of the Horse-Hunter
Chapter 6. The Spotted Mustang
Chapter 7. Nocturnal Annoyances
Chapter 8. The Crawl of the Alacran
Chapter 9. The Frontier Fort
Chapter 10. Casa Del Corvo
Chapter 11. An Unexpected Arrival
Chapter 12. Taming a Wild Mare
Chapter 13. A Prairie Pic-Nic
Chapter 14. The Manada
Chapter 15. The Runaway Overtaken
Chapter 16. Chased by Wild Stallions
Chapter 17. The Mustang Trap
Chapter 18. Jealousy upon the Trail
Chapter 19. Whisky and Water
Chapter 20. An Unsafe Position
Chapter 21. A Duel within Doors
Chapter 22. An Unknown Donor
Chapter 23. Vows of Vengeance
Chapter 24. On the Azotea
Chapter 25. A Gift Ungiven
Chapter 26. Still on the Azotea
Chapter 27. I Love You! – I Love You!
Chapter 28. A Pleasure Forbidden
Chapter 29. El Coyote at Home
Chapter 30. A Sagittary Correspondence
Chapter 31. A Stream Cleverly Crossed
Chapter 32. Light and Shade
Chapter 33. A Torturing Discovery
Chapter 34. A Chivalrous Dictation
Chapter 35. An Uncourteous Host
Chapter 36. Three Travellers on the same Track
Chapter 37. A Man Missing
Chapter 38. The Avengers
Chapter 39. The Pool of Blood
Chapter 40. The Marked Bullet
Chapter 41. Cuatro Cavalleros
Chapter 42. Vultures on the Wing
Chapter 43. The Cup and the Jar
Chapter 44. A Quartette of Comanches
Chapter 45. A Trail Gone Blind
Chapter 46. A Secret Confided
Chapter 47. An Intercepted Epistle
Chapter 48. Isidora
Chapter 49. The Lazo Unloosed
Chapter 50. A Conflict with Coyotes
Chapter 51. Twice Intoxicated
Chapter 52. An Awakener
Chapter 53. Just in Time
Chapter 54. A Prairie Palanquin
Chapter 55. Un Día de Novedades
Chapter 56. A Shot at the Devil
Chapter 57. Sounding the Signal
Chapter 58. Recoiling from a Kiss
Chapter 59. Another Who Cannot Rest
Chapter 60. A Fair Informer
Chapter 61. Angels on Earth
Chapter 62. Waiting for the Cue
Chapter 63. A Jury of Regulators
Chapter 64. A Series of Interludes
Chapter 65. Still another Interlude
Chapter 66. Chased by Comanches
Chapter 67. Los Indios!
Chapter 68. The Disappointed Campaigners
Chapter 69. Mystery and Mourning
Chapter 70. Go, Zeb, and God Speed You!
Chapter 71. The Sorell Horse
Chapter 72. Zeb Stump on the Trail
Chapter 73. The Prairie Island
Chapter 74. A Solitary Stalker
Chapter 75. On the Trail
Chapter 76. Lost in the Chalk
Chapter 77. Another Link
Chapter 78. A Horse-Swop
Chapter 79. An Untiring Tracker
Chapter 80. A Doorway Well Watched
Chapter 81. Heads Down – Heels Up
Chapter 82. A Queer Parcel
Chapter 83. Limbs of the Law
Chapter 84. An Affectionate Nephew
Chapter 85. A Kind Cousin
Chapter 86. A Texan Court
Chapter 87. A False Witness
Chapter 88. An Unwilling Witness
Chapter 89. The Confession of the Accused
Chapter 90. A Court Quickly Cleared
Chapter 91. A Chase through a Thicket
Chapter 92. A Reluctant Return
Chapter 93. A Body Beheaded
Chapter 94. The Mystery Made Clear
Chapter 95. The Last Witness
Chapter 96. Stole Away!
Chapter 97. The Chase of the Assassin
Chapter 98. Not Dead yet
Chapter 99. Attempted Murder and Suicide
Chapter 100. Joy
The Maroon
Volume I
Chapter 1. A Jamaica Sugar Estate
Chapter 2. The Myal-Man
Chapter 3. A Jamaica Déjeuner
Chapter 4. Two Letters
Chapter 5. The Slaver
Chapter 6. Jowler and Jessuron
Chapter 7. The Foolah Prince
Chapter 8. A Handsome Offer
Chapter 9. Judith Jessuron
Chapter 10. The Sea Nymph
Chapter 11. Loftus Vaughan on the Look-Out
Chapter 12. Kate and Yola
Chapter 13. Quashie
Chapter 14. Travelling at the Tail
Chapter 15. A Slippery Floor
Chapter 16. The Kiosk
Chapter 17. A Bold Resolve
Chapter 18. The Encounter of the Cousins
Chapter 19. A Surly Reception
Chapter 20. The Jew’s Penn
Chapter 21. A Fiery Baptism
Chapter 22. A Couch of Silk-Cotton
Chapter 23. The Tree Fountain
Chapter 24. The Hog-Hunter
Chapter 25. The Runaway
Chapter 26. A Combat Declined
Chapter 27. The Maroons
Chapter 28. A Forest Breakfast
Chapter 29. Quaco
Chapter 30. A Jamaica Justice
Chapter 31. An Unexpected Patron
Chapter 32. A Plotting Parent
Chapter 33. Another of the Same
Chapter 34. A Sweetheart Expected
Chapter 35. A Love Scene under the Ceiba
Volume II
Chapter 1. Smythje in Shooting Costume
Chapter 2. A Cockney Sportsman
Chapter 3. Stalking a Turkey
Chapter 4. Smythje Embarrassed by his Boots
Chapter 5. A Tropic Shower
Chapter 6. A Dangerous Dance
Chapter 7. Quashie in a Quandary
Chapter 8. A Scarcity of Trousers
Chapter 9. Herbert in the Happy Valley
Chapter 10. In Search of Justice
Chapter 11. Magistrate and Maroon
Chapter 12. The Smythje Eclipse
Chapter 13. A Proposal Postponed
Chapter 14. The Obscuration
Chapter 15. An Encounter of Eyes
Chapter 16. The Smythje Ball
Chapter 17. After the Ball
Chapter 18. Paving the Way
Chapter 19. The Duppy’s Hole
Chapter 20. Chakra, the Myal-Man
Chapter 21. The Resurrection
Chapter 22. The Love-Spell
Chapter 23. Chakra Redivivus
Chapter 24. The Bargain of Obeah
Chapter 25. The Mysterious Motive
Chapter 26. The Death-Spell
Chapter 27. The Invocation of Accompong
Chapter 28. Midnight Wanderers
Chapter 29. Tracking the Strollers
Chapter 30. Cynthia in the Way
Chapter 31. Strange Disclosures
Chapter 32. A Stormy Scene
Chapter 33. Where Next?
Chapter 34. A Dark Compact
Chapter 35. Stalking the Sleeper
Chapter 36. A Mission for the Man-Hunters
Volume III
Chapter 1. A Startling Summons
Chapter 2. Blue Dick
Chapter 3. The Mysterious Absence
Chapter 4. A Shadowed Spirit
Chapter 5. The Stirrup-Cup
Chapter 6. The Horn Signal
Chapter 7. Quaco’s Queer Encounter
Chapter 8. An Uncle in Danger
Chapter 9. An Equestrian Excursion
Chapter 10. Smythje among the Statues
Chapter 11. A Strange Determination
Chapter 12. A Jealous Reconnoissance
Chapter 13. A Spy in Ambush
Chapter 14. A Fell Purpose Defeated
Chapter 15. Cynthia’s Report
Chapter 16. A Day of Conjectures
Chapter 17. The Sick Traveller
Chapter 18. A Hideous Intruder
Chapter 19. Two Speculative Travellers
Chapter 20. No Blood
Chapter 21. The Capture of the Caçadores
Chapter 22. A Double Murder
Chapter 23. Chakra on the Back Track
Chapter 24. The Vigil of Love and the Vigil of Jealousy
Chapter 25. Cynthia in Trouble
Chapter 26. A Fatal Sneeze
Chapter 27. Chakra Trimming his Lamp
Chapter 28. Setting the Signal
Chapter 29. The Cry of the Solitaire
Chapter 30. A Sad Procession
Chapter 31. The Abduction
Chapter 32. Burglars! Robbers! Murderers!
Chapter 33. Dread Conjectures
Chapter 34. Smythje Still Living
Chapter 35. On the Track of the Destroyer
Chapter 36. Too Late
Chapter 37. The Corpse of a Cousin
Chapter 38. The Sleep-Spell
Chapter 39. A New Job for Chakra
Chapter 40. Dead, or Asleep?
Chapter 41. Quaco Turned Myal-Man
Chapter 42. The Rescue
Chapter 43. Down the Mountain
Chapter 44. An Orphan
Chapter 45. An Involuntary Suicide
Chapter 46. Quaco in Ambush
Chapter 47. The Doom of Destiny
Chapter 48. Conclusion
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The stag of Texas[1], reclining in midnight lair, is startled from his slumbers by the hoofstroke of a horse.
He does not forsake his covert, nor yet rise to his feet. His domain is shared by the wild steeds of the savannah[2], given to nocturnal straying. He only uprears his head; and, with antlers o’ertopping the tall grass, listens for a repetition of the sound.
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“You’ve lost the way, Cash?” said the planter, coming up and repeating his former observation.
“Damned if I don’t believe I have, uncle!” responded the nephew, in a tone of not very respectful mistrust. “Anyhow; who the devil could find his way out of an ashpit like this? No, no!” he continued, reluctant to betray his embarrassment as the carriole came up. “I see now. We’re all right yet. The river must be in this direction. Come on!”
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