Wheeler Edward Lytton. Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter
CHAPTER I. MADGE
CHAPTER II. THE STRANGE MARRIAGE
CHAPTER III. THE BLUFF HOUSE
CHAPTER IV. THE GHASTLY RELIC
CHAPTER V. BILL BUDGE'S CONVERSATION
CHAPTER VI. ON THE SCENT
CHAPTER VII. THE STRUGGLE
CHAPTER VIII. ADRIFT
CHAPTER IX. FRITZ'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER X. A DIVE FOR LIFE
CHAPTER XI. A FATHER'S BRUTALITY
CHAPTER XII. A PITIFUL END
CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION
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In the course of little over an hour, the carriage stopped at the inlet, where Fritz was told to get out and take a small boat and row across the water to the other shore, where he would find another carriage to complete his journey in.
He accordingly did as directed, and had soon crossed the inlet, found the second carriage, and was once more rolling northward, along the sandy beach.
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"Poor fool. He's no sand, or he'd not cut and run, after calling a man a liar. Up in Leadville things are supremely different, but here alas! is a lack of back-bone. I say, young fellow, have you ever cherished dreams of becoming rich? – a man of millions, as it were?"
"Vel, I don'd know but I haff some off dose anxiety to get rich, vonce in a vile," Fritz admitted.
