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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