Harley Greenoak's Charge
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Mitford Bertram. Harley Greenoak's Charge
Harley Greenoak's Charge
Table of Contents
"Harley Greenoak's Charge"
Chapter One
The Opening of the Compact
Chapter Two
A Beginning
Chapter Three
The Terror of the Addo
Chapter Four
The Mystery of Slaang Kloof
Chapter Five
Hazel
Chapter Six
Harley Greenoak has Misgivings
Chapter Seven
Good News
Chapter Eight
The Trapped Leopard
Chapter Nine
A Way Out
Chapter Ten
Drift
Chapter Eleven
Farewell
Chapter Twelve
Of a Fight
Chapter Thirteen
Tyala
Chapter Fourteen
The Big Gun Practice
Chapter Fifteen
The Ticking of a Watch
Chapter Sixteen
Mainwaring’s “Gas-Pipe.”
Chapter Seventeen
The Express-Riders
Chapter Eighteen
The Ordeal
Chapter Nineteen
The Ammunition Escort
Chapter Twenty
The Traitor
Chapter Twenty One
The Attack
Chapter Twenty Two
The Two Chiefs
Chapter Twenty Three
The Commandant’s Joke
Chapter Twenty Four
Another Joke
Chapter Twenty Five
A Missing Link
Chapter Twenty Six
Greenoak’s Plan
Chapter Twenty Seven
In the Locations
Chapter Twenty Eight
The “Pulse of the People.”
Chapter Twenty Nine
Mafutana’s Plan
Chapter Thirty
The “Place of the Bones.”
Chapter Thirty One
Conditional
Chapter Thirty Two
Signs and Omens
Chapter Thirty Three
The Generalship of Elsie McGunn
Chapter Thirty Four
Mrs Waybridge has an Idea
Chapter Thirty Five
“Is it too late?”
Chapter Thirty Six
Envoi
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Bertram Mitford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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What the creature might be he had no very definite idea. It was not a leopard, or it would have attacked him sooner. It was probably a hyaena or wild dog—both timid of mankind in the open, but anything is formidable when cornered. The growls grew increasingly loud and menacing—they seemed to be drawing nearer too—and every moment the helpless man expected to feel the snapping fangs tearing at his face and head. Again he made a frantic effort, but utterly without avail. The suffocating atmosphere, together with the rush of the blood to the head owing to his position, was fast causing him to lose consciousness. He was in a place of darkness, being tormented by some raging demon. Surely this was death!
“That’s better. Buck up. I thought you were a ‘goner.’” And Harley Greenoak’s voice had a ring of concern, as he bent over his charge.
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