Under Orders: The story of a young reporter
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Munroe Kirk. Under Orders: The story of a young reporter
CHAPTER I. THE CAPTAIN OF THE CREW RESIGNS
CHAPTER II. TRYING TO BECOME A REPORTER
CHAPTER III. THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE OXYGEN
CHAPTER IV. BEGINNING A NEW LIFE
CHAPTER V. THE KIND OF A FELLOW BILLINGS WAS
CHAPTER VI. A REPORTER AT HOME
CHAPTER VII “NO LOAFERS NOR REPORTERS ADMITTED.”
CHAPTER VIII “LORD STEEREM,” THE COXSWAIN
CHAPTER IX. AN ACT OF FOLLY AND A CRUEL DISPATCH
CHAPTER X. MYLES MAKES A STARTLING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XI. A FIGHT AND A MISTAKE
CHAPTER XII. MYLES FALLS INTO A TRAP
CHAPTER XIII. THE STRIKERS CAPTURE A TRAIN
CHAPTER XIV. A RACE AGAINST TIME
CHAPTER XV. THE 50TH REGIMENT, N. G. S. N. Y
CHAPTER XVI. RECALLED AND DISMISSED
CHAPTER XVII. THE BEST SISTER IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER XVIII. WHO ROBBED THE SAFE?
CHAPTER XIX. REINSTATED AND ARRESTED
CHAPTER XX. COLLECTING EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE
CHAPTER XXI. A DAY OF TRIAL
CHAPTER XXII. TRIUMPHANTLY ACQUITTED
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“THE situation certainly looks desperate, Anna,” said Mr. Manning, with a deep sigh, as he turned wearily on his couch and reached out a thin white hand that was immediately clasped between the plump ones of his cheery-faced wife. Her face did not look so very cheery just at this moment, however, for lines of anxiety were wrinkling her forehead and her eyes were full of tears. Then, too, she was thinking so hard that her mouth was all puckered up.
“Yes, it does look a little desperate,” she admitted; “but, bless you! it has looked desperate plenty of times before, and we have always come out all right somehow. God has been too good to us so far to desert us now, and I, for one, am willing to trust him to the end.”
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“Oh, Myles, think again, and seriously before you take this step. We can manage somehow to keep you in college for one little year more; I know we can.”
“Of course you could, mother. You could do any thing that you set out to do, only I won’t be kept,” answered the boy, bravely. “The next thing you hear of me will be that I am a junior partner in some Wall Street concern; see if I am not.”
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