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The Forfeit
- Author: Cullum Ridgwell
- Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III TRAILING THE "BLACK TAIL" THE woman started. She threw up her head. Her wide eyes, wonderful and dark, searched the deep aisles of the shaded pine woods about her. Her hair hung loosely in a knot at the nape of her neck, and its intensely dark masses made an exquisite framing for the oval of the handsome face beneath the loose brim of a wide prairie hat. The stillness of these wooded slopes of the Cathills was profound. They possessed something of the solemnity belonging to the parent range of the Rockies beyond. For they were almost primeval. The woman might have belonged to them, her dark beauty so harmonized with its surroundings. Yet for all her coloring, for all the buckskin she wore for upper garment, there was nothing in her nature of the outlands which now claimed her. She was of the cities. She was bred and nurtured in the civilized places. The life about her was another life. It was crude and foreign to her. It claimed her by force of circumstance against every instinct and emotion. Her searching ceased, and her eyes fixed their steady regard upon a gray-brown object moving amongst the myriad of black stanchions which supported the tousled roof of melancholy green foliage above her. With an almost imperceptible movement one buckskin clad armreached slowly out toward the small sporting rifle which leaned against an adjacent tree-trunk. Her whole poise was tense and steady. There was in her attitude that hard decision which one associates only with the experienced hunter. There was almost too much decision in a woman so obviously young. The weapon was drawn toward her. For one brief moment it was laid across her lap upon the paper-covered book she had been reading. Then its butt found its way to a resting place against her soft shoulder. Not for ...
the portage path
- Author: peter peterson cherry
- Genre: Mystery
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Captain Pipe of Portage Path "Here the mighty Hopocan, Held his long unquestioned sway, From the green hills far away, To the Great Lake's sounding shore; Chief of chiefs, his regal word All the river Sachems heard; At his call the war-dance stirred, Or was still once more." "There were spoils of chase and war; Jaws of wolf and black bear's paw, Panther's skin and eagle's claw, Lay beside his axe and bow; And adown the roof-pole hung, Loosely on a snake-skin strung, In the smoke his scalp-locks swung Grimly to and fro." "Nightly down the river going, Swifter was the hunter's rowing, When he saw that lodge-fire glowing O'er the waters still and red; And the squaw's dark eye burned brighter, And she drew her blanket tighter, As with swifter steps and lighter From that door she fled." Whittier Captain Pipe Warning the Scout to L.obvp the Red Men's Land HopocanCaptain Pipe the Kihg of Portage Path Hopocan, Hobacon, Copacon, Wobocan, as it has been variously spelled, or as he was better known, Captain Pipe, was a man of mystery. There is no direct evidence that he was ever born, and none that he ever died. This strange, mysterious, successful and vindictive historical figure appeared upon the stage and thendisappeared. As near as can be learned he was born somewhere on the Susquehanna, when the eighteenth century was quite young. No man knows when, or where. He belonged to the Wolf clan of the LenniLenape or the Delaware. His early life as well as his latter end is buried in obscurity. We first hear of him in 1759, then a noted chief, and a man of uncertain age. What had been his environments? We have no knowledge. When he removed to the Ohio country is also not certain. The most that is known is, that in 1764, he was a well known and no...
By-paths in the Balkans
- Author: Herbert, Frederick William von
- Genre: Mystery
A haunted house (Corn., Dec. 1905).--A hero's [Alexander of Battenberg] tomb.--The Gipsies.--Gipsy music (Monthly musical record, Sept., 1905).--The yellow cat; translated from the Turkish. (Speaker, Jan. 6, 1906).--Arms and men (Fortn., June 1905).--Military bands. (Monthly musical record., Oct. and Nov., 1905).--Customs and costumes.--Speech and letters.--The watchtower.--Stranded.--Glossary