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CONNECTICUT BOYS
=======IN THE=======
WESTERN RESERVE.
A TALE OF THE MORAVIAN MASSACRE
...BY...
James A. Braden.
AUTHOR OF
“FAR PAST THE FRONTIER,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
W. Herbert Dunton
C
AKRON, OHIO
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.
NEW YORK CHICAGO
MADE IN U. S. A.
Copyright, 1927
By
The Saalfield Publishing Company
CONTENTS
- I. A RAINY NIGHT. 9
- II. TALL TODD’S WARNING. 23
- III. A MYSTERY OF THE FOREST. 38
- IV. THE LONE INDIAN. 52
- V. HIDDEN TREASURE. 67
- VI. THE CABIN BY THE RIVER. 84
- VII. THE REWARD OF VIGILANCE. 101
- VIII. THE FATE OF BLACK EAGLE. 117
- IX. THE CAMP IN THE TREE-TOP. 134
- X. THE QUAKER’S STORY. 148
- XI. HELPING THE DELAWARES—DANGER. 165
- XII. BANDS OF BLACK. 181
- XIII. A CRY FROM THE DARKNESS. 197
- XIV. CAPTURED. 212
- XV. THE SEARCH. 227
- XVI. THE CAVE OF THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. 242
CHAPTER I.
A RAINY NIGHT.
A dismally wet and cold September day hadcome early to a close and thick darkness hadsettled down an hour since, when the horse attachedto a heavy, canvas-covered, two-wheeledemigrant wagon stopped, at its driver’s command,before an inhospitable looking house,from one window of which a feeble light wasshining. The rain splashed drearily, the windmoaned in a ghostly way about the structurewhose dim outlines were just visible, and flappedthe canvas over the wagon fitfully.