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Robert Aitken. The White Blackbird
The White Blackbird
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A TROPICAL DISCUSSION
CHAPTER II
"DUTCH COURAGE"
CHAPTER III
EL FARISH
CHAPTER IV
THE MASQUE OF DEATH
CHAPTER V
AFLOAT AND ASHORE
CHAPTER VI
HOBSON'S CHOICE
CHAPTER VII
THE WHITE BLACKBIRD
CHAPTER VIII
UNMASKED
"You won't forget," he urged, grave again
CHAPTER IX
AN OVERDRAFT ON THE FUTURE
CHAPTER X
THE GODDESS OF CHANCE
CHAPTER XI
A FOOL AND HIS FORTUNE
CHAPTER XII
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
CHAPTER XIII
A MASTERSTROKE
CHAPTER XIV
"SALLIE HARRIS"
CHAPTER XV
THE LAW—AND THE PROFITS
CHAPTER XVI
"PLEASURES AND PALACES"
CHAPTER XVII
THE MAN IN POSSESSION
CHAPTER XVIII
THE LOSER
CHAPTER XIX
THE WINNER
CHAPTER XX
BEGGAR-MY-NEIGHBOUR
CHAPTER XXI
THE JURA SUCCESSION
Something very like fear looked out of his eyes
CHAPTER XXII
THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART
CHAPTER XXIII
A NEW IDEA
CHAPTER XXIV
BY RIGHT OF PURCHASE
CHAPTER XXV
THE WHITE LADY
CHAPTER XXVI
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER XXVII
DEBIT AND CREDIT
She touched with her lips the back of the toil-stained hand
CHAPTER XXVIII
ISHMAEL'S HERITAGE
CHAPTER XXIX
PRIDE'S PRICE
CHAPTER XXX
THE TENTH EARL
CHAPTER XXXI
"AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE"
THE END
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Robert Aitken
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Emir's wife laid a hand on her heart and panted, as if she had been running. A hectic flush had coloured her sunken cheeks. Sallie saw that she must once have been a very good-looking girl.
"How did you come to our camp?" she asked, suppressing with a great effort the cough her labouring chest could scarcely contain. "Is there another caravan near, or—a ship?"
