THE STORY OF DUCIEHURST
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THE STORY OF
DUCIEHURST
A Tale of the Mississippi
BY
CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
AUTHOR OF “THE FAIR MISSISSIPPIAN,” “THE AMULET,” “THE STORM
CENTRE,” “THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON,” “A SPECTRE
OF POWER,” “THE ORDEAL,” “THE PROPHET OF
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS,” ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914
Copyright, 1914
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1914.
THE STORY OF DUCIEHURST
CHAPTER I
Dead low water and there the steamboat lay on the sand-bar, stranded andhelpless. The surging swirls of the swift current raced impetuously oneither side. Scarcely a furlong distant on that corrugated, ripplingsurface the leadsman had heaved the plummet of the sounding-line at“deep four.” Nevertheless the craft had grounded here on a submergedprojection of a “tow-head” built of silt and detritu