The Harbor of Doubt

The Harbor of Doubt
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Sullivan Francis William. The Harbor of Doubt

CHAPTER I. MALICIOUSLY ACCUSED

CHAPTER II. THE RED PERIL

CHAPTER III. THE TEST

CHAPTER IV. REFUGEES

CHAPTER V. STARTLING NEWS

CHAPTER VI. THE ISLAND DECIDES

CHAPTER VII. A STRANGER

CHAPTER VIII. JIMMIE THOMAS’S STRATEGY

CHAPTER IX. ON THE COURSE

CHAPTER X. A MYSTERY

CHAPTER XI. IN THE FOG BANK

CHAPTER XII. OUT OF FREEKIRK HEAD

CHAPTER XIII. NAT BURNS SHOWS HIS HAND

CHAPTER XIV. A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XV. THE CATCH OF THE ROSAN

CHAPTER XVI. A STAGGERING BLOW

CHAPTER XVII. TRAWLERS

CHAPTER XVIII. TREACHERY

CHAPTER XIX. ELLINWOOD TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER XX. AMONG THE HOME FOLKS

CHAPTER XXI. A PRISONER

CHAPTER XXII. A RECOVERED TREASURE

CHAPTER XXIII. SURPRISES

CHAPTER XXIV. THE SIREN

CHAPTER XXV. THE GUILT FIXED

CHAPTER XXVI. WETTING THEIR SALT

CHAPTER XXVII. THE REWARD OF EVIL

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE RACE

CHAPTER XXIX. A FATAL LETTER

CHAPTER XXX. ELSA’S TRIUMPH

CHAPTER XXXI. PEACE AND PROSPERITY

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Five minutes of plunging and slipping brought him down to the main road that gleamed a dim gray in the blackness. A quarter of a mile east lay the wharfs, the general store, and some of the best dwellings in Freekirk Head.

Ahead of him in the road he could see lanterns bobbing, and the illuminated legs of the men who carried them running. Behind he heard the muffled pound of boots in thick dust, and the hoarse panting of others racing toward the scene of the trouble. The frantic screeching of the steamer’s whistle (that was not yet silent) had done its work well. Freekirk Head was up in arms.

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Already an iron ladder reached to the eaves of the building. Two men galloped up its length, dragging behind them another ladder with a pair of huge hooks at the end.

Clinging like monkeys, they worked this up over their heads and up the shingles until the hooks caught squarely across the ridge-pole of the house. Then, on hands and feet, they trotted up this and sat astride the ridge-pole. One of these was Code Schofield.

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