Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Prisoner in a Lone Cabin 9

II Strange Sentries 18

III A Darting Shadow 41

IV A Strange Escape 58

V Safe at Home 69

VI Confederate Gold 76

VII Mysterious Footsteps 93

VIII The Silent Watcher 112

IX Beyond Forbidden Portals 131

X A Mysterious People 149

XI The Guard of the Stone Gateway 166

XII The Mystery Trail 182

XIII A Tense Situation 196

XIV Hallie Kidnapped 212

XV By the Aid of a Coon 220

XVI A Perilous Glide 234

XVII The Last of Her Clan 244

XVIII The Strange Procession 253

THE SILENT ALARM

CHAPTER I
THE PRISONER IN A LONE CABIN

In a cabin far up the side of Pine Mountain,within ten paces of the murmuring waters ofAges Creek, there stood an old, two roomedlog cabin. In one room of that cabin sat agirl. She was a large, strong girl, with theglow of ruddy health on her cheeks.

Her dress, though simple, displayed a tastetoo often missing in the Cumberland Mountainsof Kentucky, and one might haveguessed that she was from outside the mountains.

If one were to observe her, sitting there ina rustic splint bottomed chair; if he were tostudy her by the flickering firelight, he mighthave said: “She is a guest.”

In this he would have been wrong. FlorenceHuyler was virtually a prisoner in thatcabin. As she sat there dreamily gazing atthe flickering fire, a man did sentry duty outsidethe door. He seemed asleep as he satslouched over in a chair tilted against thecabin, but he was not. Nor would the occupantof that chair sleep this night.

Yet, had you said to Florence, “Why dothey hold you prisoner here?” she would havereplied:

“I’m sure I don’t know.”

That would have been true,

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