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Theodore Goodridge Roberts. The Oxbow Wizard
The Oxbow Wizard
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE STRANGER’S BOOK
CHAPTER II. THE NICK O’ TIME
CHAPTER III. A THIEF WITH CLAWS
CHAPTER IV. THE MAN IN THE BUNK
CHAPTER V. THE STIFF KNEE
CHAPTER VI. FISH FOR BAIT
CHAPTER VII. THE ONE-EYED INJUN
CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF SABATIS
CHAPTER IX. THE FIGHT IN THE SNOW
CHAPTER X. FEAR OF THE LAW
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Theodore Goodridge Roberts
Published by Good Press, 2021
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A few days after the frying of the family pancakes by Molly and within two weeks after the passing of the sportsman in the care of Uncle Bill Tangler, seven of the scholars who attended the little school at the Bend came down with the mumps and on Thursday Miss Carten announced that the school would close for a week at least—and perhaps longer. The Evanses had escaped the epidemic, having been victims of the malady two years before. Molly and Amos went racing home, making the echoes repeat their whoops of joy. Young Dan walked more soberly behind them, for there were many things on his mind and he meant to use his time—while the mumps kept the schoolhouse closed—to test several theories that, ever since he had read the book with the green cover, had been simmering away in the back of his head.
But Young Dan got no leisure in which to test his theories—at least he was not able to try them in the exact manner he had planned—for a stirring and mysterious event that roused excitement in the whole Oxbow region occurred less than twenty-four hours after the vacation began. Miss Carten disappeared. She dropped from sight as completely and as mysteriously as if a silent airplane had swooped down at night out of a dark sky and had carried her aloft like a great-horned owl stealing a birdling. On Friday someone asked for Miss Carten at the Troller farm where she boarded.
