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Poison Island By: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) |
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By ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER COUCH (Q).
CONTENTS.
Chapter. I. HOW I FIRST MET WITH CAPTAIN COFFIN. II. I AM ENTERED AT COPENHAGEN ACADEMY. III. A STREET FIGHT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. IV. CAPTAIN COFFIN STUDIES NAVIGATION. V. THE WHALEBOAT. VI. MY FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE CHART. VII. ENTER THE RETURNED PRISONER. VIII. THE HUNTED AND THE HUNTER. IX. CHAOS IN THE CAPTAINS LODGINGS. X. NEWS. XI. THE CRIME IN THE SUMMER HOUSE. XII. THE BLOODSTAIN ON THE STILE. XIII. CLUES IN A TANGLE. XIV. HOW I BROKE OUT THE RED ENSIGN. XV. CAPTAIN BRANSCOME'S CONFESSION THE MAN IN THE LANE. XVI. CAPTAIN BRANSCOME'S CONFESSION THE FLAG AND THE CASHBOX. XVII. THE CHART OF MORTALLONE. XVIII. THE CONTENTS OF THE CORNER CUPBOARD. XIX. CAPTAIN COFFIN'S LOG. XX. CAPTAIN COFFIN'S LOG (CONTINUED). XXI. IN WHICH PLINNY SURPRISES EVERYONE. XXII. A STRANGE MAN IN THE GARDEN. XXIII. HOW WE SAILED TO THE ISLAND. XXIV. WE ANCHOR OFF THE ISLAND. XXV. I TAKE FRENCH LEAVE ASHORE. XXVI. THE WOMEN IN THE GRAVEYARD. XXVII. THE MAN IN BLACK. XXVIII. THE MASTER OF THE ISLAND. XXIX. A BOAT ON THE BEACH. XXX. THE SCREAM ON THE CLIFF. XXXI. AARON GLASS. XXXII. WE COME TO DR. BEAUREGARD'S HOUSE. XXXIII. WE FIND THE TREASURE. XXXIV. DOCTOR BEAUREGARD. CHAPTER I. HOW I FIRST MET WITH CAPTAIN COFFIN. It was in the dusk of a July evening of the year 1813 (July 27, to be
precise) that on my way back from the mail coach office, Falmouth, to
Mr. Stimcoe's Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen, No. 7, Delamere
Terrace, I first met Captain Coffin as he came, drunk and cursing, up
the Market Strand, with a rabble of children at his heels. I have
reason to remember the date and hour of this encounter, not only for
its remarkable consequences, but because it befell on the very day
and within an hour or two of my matriculation at Stimcoe's.
That afternoon I had arrived at Falmouth by Royal Mail, in charge of
Miss Plinlimmon, my father's housekeeper; and now but ten minutes ago
I had seen off that excellent lady and waved farewell to her not
without a sinking of the heart on her return journey to Minden
Cottage, which was my home. My name is Harry Brooks, and my age on this remembered evening was
fourteen and something over. My father, Major James Brooks, late of
the 4th (King's Own) Regiment, had married twice, and at the time of
his retirement from active service was for the second time a widower.
Blindness contracted by exposure and long marches over the snows of
Galicia had put an end to a career by no means undistinguished.
In his last fight, at Corunna, he had not only earned a mention in
despatches from his brigadier general, Lord William Bentinck, but by
his alertness in handling his half regiment at a critical moment, and
refusing its right to an outflanking line of French, had been
privileged to win almost the last word of praise uttered by his
idolized commander. My father heard, and faced about, but his eyes
were already failing him; they missed the friendly smile with which
Sir John Moore turned, and cantered off along the brigade, to
encourage the 50th and 42nd regiments, and to receive, a few minutes
later, the fatal cannon shot. Every one has heard what miseries the returning transports endured in
the bitter gale of January, 1809. The Londonderry , in which my
father sailed, did indeed escape wreck, but at the cost of a week's
beating about the mouth of the Channel. He was, by rights, an
invalid, having taken a wound in the kneecap from a spent bullet, one
of the last fired in the battle; but in the common peril he bore a
hand with the best. For three days and two nights he never shifted
his clothing, which the gale alternately soaked and froze. It was
frozen stiff as a board when the Londonderry made the entrance of
Plymouth Sound; and he was borne ashore in a rheumatic fever... Continue reading book >>
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