The Hermit Hunter of the Wilds

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. BY THE FIRELIGHT.

CHAPTER II. “IT WAS ON JUST SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS, SISTER.”

CHAPTER III. “THE FEARFULNESS OF OUR SITUATION CAN HARDLY BE REALIZED.”

CHAPTER IV. AMONG THE WOODS OF CRAIGIELEA.

CHAPTER V. “THE WHOLE WORLD IS FULL OF CHANGES.”

CHAPTER VI. “RUN, RUN!” CRIED TOM; “THE MAN MUST NOT DIE YET!”

CHAPTER VII. “HERE HANGS HIS BROTHER’S SCALP.”

CHAPTER VIII. “NEVER BEFORE HAD TOM EXPERIENCED SUCH A FEELING OF AWFUL DANGER.”

CHAPTER IX. “THE WHOLE SEA OF MIST TURNED TO CLOUDS OF MINGLED GOLD AND CRIMSON.”

CHAPTER X. “IN THE FORESTS STRANGE SHRIEKS AND SOUNDS WERE HEARD.”

CHAPTER XI. “THE TREES WENT DOWN BEFORE IT LIKE HAY BEFORE THE MOWER’S SCYTHE.”

CHAPTER XII. “A SHOWER OF POISONED DARTS FELL PATTERING ON THE STOCKADE.”

CHAPTER XIII. THE DYING AYAH TELLS OF BERNARD.

CHAPTER XIV. “FILLED WITH GOLD DOUBLOONS—SIRR, ARE YE LISTENING?”

CHAPTER XV. “NEXT INSTANT THE SHIP WAS STRUCK AND STAVED.”

CHAPTER XVI. “A VAST GREEN AND FLOWERY VALLEY SURROUNDED BY ROMANTIC HILLS.”

CHAPTER XVII. STRANGE LIFE ON THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.

CHAPTER XVIII. “HE WAS CONVINCED NOW HE HAD SEEN A SPECTRE AND NOTHING ELSE.”

CHAPTER XIX. “UNDER THE GRAVE YOU DUG ARE GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES.”

CHAPTER XX. “O, BERNARD, IT IS YOUR FATHER’S SHIP!.”

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