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Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery

By Theodore Goodridge Roberts

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RAYTON:
A BACKWOODS MYSTERY
- Author of "A Captain of Raleigh's," "Comrades of the Trails," "Red Feathers," etc.
- Nell Harley
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
RAYTON:
A BACKWOODS MYSTERY
CHAPTER I
- THE GAME THAT WAS NOT FINISHED
- "JIM HARLEY SNATCHED UP THE CARD"
CHAPTER II
- JIM HARLEY TELLS AN OLD STORY
CHAPTER III
- DAVID MARSH DECIDES TO SPEAK—AND DOESN'T
CHAPTER IV
- THE TRAPPER'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER V
- DOCTOR NASH'S SUSPICIONS—YOUNG MARSH'S MISFORTUNE
- "HE ADVANCED SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, A PITIFUL FIGURE"
CHAPTER VI
- DAVID TAKES A MISFORTUNE IN A POOR SPIRIT
CHAPTER VII
- MR. BANKS TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME
CHAPTER VIII
- RAYTON GOES TO BORROW A SAUCEPAN
CHAPTER IX
- RAYTON CONFESSES
CHAPTER X
- RED CROSSES AGAIN
CHAPTER XI
- AN UNFORTUNATE MOMENT FOR THE DOCTOR
- "PLUNGED AT RAYTON, WITH HIS FISTS FLYING"
CHAPTER XII
- RAYTON IS REMINDED OF THE RED CROSSES
CHAPTER XIII
- CAPTAIN WIGMORE SUGGESTS AN AMAZING THING
CHAPTER XIV
- FEAR FORGOTTEN—AND RECALLED
- "'IT IS BECAUSE—BECAUSE I CARE SO FOR YOU—'"
CHAPTER XV
- MR. BANKS IS STUNG
CHAPTER XVI
- THE LITTLE CAT AND THE BIG MOUSE
- "THEN HE HALTED AND RECOILED, CLUTCHING AT THE COLD WALLS!"
CHAPTER XVII
- AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XVIII
- DICK GOODINE RETURNS UNEXPECTEDLY
CHAPTER XIX
- THE CAPTAIN'S CHARGE
CHAPTER XX
- THE CHOSEN INSTRUMENT OF FATE
CHAPTER XXI
- THE DEATH OF THE CURSE
CHAPTER XXII
- IN THE WAY OF HAPPINESS
- THE END.
WORKS OF Theodore Goodridge Roberts