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Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America By: Roy Rockwood |
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JACK NORTH'S TREASURE HUNT Or, Daring Adventures in South America
BY
ROY ROCKWOOD Author of "The Rival Ocean Divers," "The Cruise of the
Treasure Ship," "A Schoolboy's Pluck," etc. Illustrated THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.
CLEVELAND NEW YORK Made in U.S.A.
Copyright, 1907, by
CHATTERTON PECK COMPANY
PRESS OF
THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO
CLEVELAND Contents
I. A Chance for a Position
II. The Test of Strength
III. A Long Trip Proposed
IV. Just in Time
V. On the Island of Robinson Crusoe
VI. A Terrible Mistake
VII. A Plea of the Enemy
VIII. The Lonely Pimento
IX. Jack Becomes an Engineer
X. A Narrow Escape
XI. Under the Head of a Jaguar
XII. Put to the Test
XIII. Precious Moments
XIV. The Attack on the Train
XV. The Treasure Island
XVI. At the Boiling Lake
XVII. In the Nitrate Fields
XVIII. An Alarm of Fire
XIX. Chilians on Both Sides
XX. Preparations for Departure
XXI. A Panic on Shipboard
XXII. The Fate of Plum Plucky
XXIII. Jenny
XXIV. Jack and the Ocelot
XXV. In the Quicksands
XXVI. A Night in the Jungle
XXVII. Jack and the Big Snake
XXVIII. Back from the Dead
XXIX. The Treasure of the Boiling Lake
XXX. A Ride for Life Conclusion
Jack North's Treasure Hunt
Chapter I A Chance for a Position "Where are you going, Jack?" "To the shops of John Fowler & Company." "To look for a job?" "Yes." "Then you are in luck, for I heard this morning that they want another
striker in the lower shop at once." "Then I'll strike for the opening at once, and my name is not Jack
North if I don't land it." "It will be John Slowshanks when you do get it, mind me!" cried out
another voice, from an alley way near at hand, and before Jack North or
his companion could recover from their surprise the speaker, a tall,
awkward youth of twenty, sped up the street at the top of his speed. The scene was in Bauton, a large manufacturing city of New England. The
first speaker was a workman at the shops that had been mentioned, but
beyond the fact that he placed the youth before him in the way of getting
work, he needs no special introduction. The other person was a lad of eighteen, with brown, curly hair, blue eyes,
and a round, robust figure. His name was John North, and he was the son of
a couple in humble circumstances. "Take care!" cried the man, "that sneak will get in ahead of you, and then
a snap of your little finger for your chance of getting the job at
Fowler's." Jack North did not stop to hear his friend through. He was very much in
need of a situation, and he knew the young man who had rushed in ahead of
him as a bitter enemy. That fact, coupled with his desire to get work,
caused him to dash up the street as fast as he could run. Naturally the appearance of the two running at such a headlong pace
aroused the attention of the passers by, all of whom stopped to see what
it meant. Others rushed out of their houses, offices or workshops to
ascertain the meaning of the race, until the street was lined with
excited, anxious men, women and children. "Is it fire?" asked an old, gray headed man, and another, catching only
the sound of the last word, repeated it and thus a wild alarm was quickly
spread. Meanwhile Jack North had found that he could not overtake his rival. He
was not a fleet runner, while the other had gotten a start of him, which
he could not hope to make up. But he was too fertile in his resources to despair. In fact he was never
known to give up a contest which he had once fairly entered. This
persistence in whatever he undertook was the secret of Jack North's
wonderful success amid environments which must have discouraged less
courageous hearts. Still it looked to his enemy, as the latter glanced back to see him
leisurely turn into a side street leading away from their destination,
that he had nothing further to fear from him... Continue reading book >>
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