Smith Ruel Perley. The Rival Campers Ashore: or, The Mystery of the Mill
CHAPTER I. AN INLAND VOYAGE
CHAPTER II. TURNED ADRIFT
CHAPTER III. THE OLD MILL
CHAPTER IV. THE TROUT POOL
CHAPTER V. SOME CAUSES OF TROUBLE
CHAPTER VI. CAPTURING AN INDIAN
CHAPTER VII. A LONG RACE BEGUN
CHAPTER VIII. CONQUERING THE RAPIDS
CHAPTER IX. AN EXCITING FINISH
CHAPTER X. HENRY BURNS MAKES A GIFT
CHAPTER XI. COL. WITHAM GETS THE MILL
CHAPTER XII. THE GOLDEN COIN
CHAPTER XIII. A SAILING ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIV. THE FORTUNE-TELLER
CHAPTER XV. A HUNT THROUGH THE MILL
CHAPTER XVI. THE GOLDEN COIN LOST AGAIN
CHAPTER XVII. A STRANGE ADMISSION
CHAPTER XVIII. GRANNY THORNTON'S SECRET
CHAPTER XIX. THE MYSTERY OF THE MILL
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Soon they were on their way again, with the sky lightening a little and the rain almost ceased. They plunged through the tangle of dripping brakes, down to the shore; pushed off once more in midstream, and started back the way they had come.
There was not quite so much spirit to their paddling as there had been on the way up. Every stroke had meant to their minds, then, just so much of their journey accomplished. Now they knew they were striving only to put themselves on the right track again, and that there would be four wet miles of wasted effort. However, they were still strong, and the canoe went rapidly down stream.
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Out of the darkness of the other part of the mill there came in a sound of rushing water, plainly distinguishable above the roar of the water flowing over the dam, and the dashing rain and the gusts of wind. Then, as they stood, listening curiously, there came a deep, rumbling sound out of the very vitals of the old mill; there was a gentle quivering throughout all its timbers; a groaning in all its aged structure; a whirring, droning sound – the wheels of the mill were turning, and there was needed only the pushing of one of the levers to set the great mill-stones, themselves, to grinding.
"Jack," cried Henry Burns, "you've opened the gates. The wheels are turning. We've got to stop that, quick. Someone might hear it."
