Smith Ruel Perley. The Rival Campers: or, The Adventures of Henry Burns
CHAPTER I. THE CAMP
CHAPTER II. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER III. A SURPRISE
CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT WITH HENRY BURNS
CHAPTER V. A HIDDEN CAVE
CHAPTER VI. JACK HARVEY INVESTIGATES
CHAPTER VII. SQUIRE BRACKETT’S DOG
CHAPTER VIII. THE HAUNTED HOUSE
CHAPTER IX. SETTING A TRAP
CHAPTER X. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XI. AN UNPLEASANT DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XII. A CRUISE AROUND THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XIII. STORM DRIVEN
CHAPTER XIV. THE MAN IN THE BOAT
CHAPTER XV. GOOD FOR EVIL
CHAPTER XVI. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIRE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XIX. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER XX. AMONG THE ISLANDS
CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL
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A person leaving the wharf at Southport would ordinarily take one of three roads: the one directly ahead leading up through the village and past the hotel; the one to the left passing by, though at some distance from, the cottages that were scattered irregularly along the south shore of the bay; the road to the right leading similarly to the cottages on that shore. The shore there, however, made a deep sweep, bordering on a cove of some considerable extent.
From the shore in all directions the land sloped back, with a gradual rise for about a mile. Cottages dotted the slope here and there.
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There was something so ludicrous in the idea that the boys could not help bursting into roars of laughter, – though they felt little enough like merriment.
“The more I think of it,” said Henry Burns, “the more I believe the boys are snug ashore at Millville, and that they haven’t been within ten miles of Grand Island to-night.”
