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The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) |
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MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE Being the Story of the World's
Greatest Exploration and the
Romance of a Very Gallant
Gentleman. A NOVEL BY
EMERSON HOUGH AUTHOR OF THE COVERED WAGON,
NORTH OF 36, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR I. KELLER NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
EMERSON HOUGH COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY Printed in the United States of America
[Illustration: "'Him Ro'shones,' replied the girl"
[PAGE 219]]
TO
ROBERT H. DAVIS
GOOD FRIEND
INVALUABLE COLLABORATOR
CONTENTS
PART I CHAPTER PAGE I. MOTHER AND SON 3 II. MERIWETHER AND THEODOSIA 15 III. MR. BURR AND MR. MERRY 30 IV. PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY 36 V. THE PELL MELL AND SOME CONSEQUENCES 47 VI. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY 71 VII. COLONEL BURR AND HIS DAUGHTER 86 VIII. THE PARTING 94 IX. MR. THOMAS JEFFERSON 105 X. THE THRESHOLD OF THE WEST 117 XI. THE TAMING OF PATRICK GASS 128 XII. CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK 137 XIII. UNDER THREE FLAGS 143 XIV. THE RENT IN THE ARMOR 153 PART II I. UNDER ONE FLAG 167 II. THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER 182 III. THE DAY'S WORK 191 IV. THE CROSSROADS OF THE WEST 199 V. THE APPEAL 208 VI. WHICH WAY? 218 VII. THE MOUNTAINS 230 VIII. TRAIL'S END 241 IX. THE SUMMONS 250 X. THE ABYSS 256 XI. THE BEE 272 XII. WHAT VOICE HAD CALLED? 280 XIII. THE NEWS 292 XIV. THE GUESTS OF A NATION 300 XV. MR. JEFFERSON'S ADVICE 308 XVI. THE QUALITY OF MERCY 316 XVII. THE FRIENDS 328 XVIII. THE WILDERNESS 336 XIX. DOWN TO THE SEA 351
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'Him Ro'shones,' replied the girl" Frontispiece FACING PAGE "'Mistah Thomas Jeffahson!' was his sole announcement" 50 "'Oh, Theo, what have I done?'" 162 "Her face indeed!" 252
THE
MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE
CHAPTER I MOTHER AND SON
A woman, tall, somewhat angular, dark of hair and eye, strong of
features a woman now approaching middle age sat looking out over the
long, tree clad slopes that ran down from the gallery front of the
mansion house to the gate at the distant roadway. She had sat thus for
some moments, many moments, her gaze intently fixed, as though waiting
for something something or someone that she did not now see, but
expected soon to see. It was late afternoon of a day so beautiful that not even old
Albemarle, beauty spot of Virginia, ever produced one more
beautiful not in the hundred years preceding that day, nor in the
century since then. For this was more than a hundred years ago; and
what is now an ancient land was then a half opened region, settled
only here and there by the great plantations of the well to do... Continue reading book >>
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