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Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Tom Akerley
Tom Akerley
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER II. THE GIRL AND THE MAN
CHAPTER III. CATHERINE’S PLAN
CHAPTER IV. THE HEAVIEST HITTER
CHAPTER V. THE PLAN SUCCEEDS
CHAPTER VI. MICK OTTER, INJUN
CHAPTER VII. TAKING TO THE TRAIL
CHAPTER VIII. BLACK FORESTS AND GRAY SWAMPS
CHAPTER IX. GASPARD UNDERSTANDS
CHAPTER X. MICK OTTER, MATCH-MAKER
CHAPTER XI. THE MILITARY CROSS
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Theodore Goodridge Roberts
His Adventures in the Tall Timber and at Gaspard's Clearing on the Indian River
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Akerley got slowly and painfully to his feet and moved toward the house, the door of which stood open. He had been so badly shaken by his throw from the machine that he had to sink to his knees and right hand several times on the way. He reached the door-step at last and sat down on it. So far, he had not caught a glimpse of anything human and alive. A few hens scratched about a stable door and a small black dog eyed him inquiringly from a distance.
The door stood open upon the main apartment of the house, which was very evidently kitchen and living-room in one. It contained a long, high-backed settle against one wall, a deal table against another and a dresser of unstained pine against a third. Plates, platters and bowls, yellow, blue-and-white and a few adorned with flowery designs in gorgeous hues, and a big brown tea-pot, stood on the shelves of the dresser. There was a wide chimney with a fireplace containing fire-dogs and a crane with dangling pot-hooks; and to one side of the chimney, with an elbow of pipe leading into the rough masonry, stood a small stove. Both hearth and stove were cold. A few rag mats, and two deer skins worn bald in patches, lay on the floor of squared timbers. The log walls were sheathed with thin strips of cedar, the partitions and ceiling were of wide pine boards. Rough hewn rafters ran across the ceiling. There was no sign of plaster anywhere in that wide room. There were closed doors in the partitions to the right and left, and one in the log wall beside the chimney, opposite the open door. A wide ladder went steeply up from a corner to an open trap in the ceiling.
