The White Cave
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ISBN13: 9780217287210
Paperback|9780217287210
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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 BOOMERANGS EVEEAL long days after Sir Frederick Parry's excursion party set out so merrily from the Grampians, the hot December sunlight shone down over the wilderness, and sent its searching rays into many wild-looking places. One of them was a mountain pass, between gigantic and almost perpendicular walls of rock, which were grandly high, and shattered, and irregular. Only here and there could the sunshine reach the boulder-strewn, natural road at the bottom of the pass. No wagon could have traveled that road, but a horse could do so, or a man; and in and out among the boulders, carefully picking his way, a man was leading a heavily laden horse. The animal was large, and strong, and bony, and so was the man. The horse was black, and looked as if his coat had never known a currycomb or a brush. At intervals the man cast quick, anxious glances behind him, up the pass. They 're after me again, he exclaimed. I knew they 'd follow me, as soon as I met that fellow Jim. They have n'tcaught up yet, though; and I '11 beat them, this time, as I have beaten them before. But it won't do to push too fast with such a cargo as this. He was silent, for a moment, while he helped the horse through a bad place, throwing some fragments of rock out of the way with an ease that suggested a reason why no one man would be likely to stop him. Then he added: I won't have to visit that gulch again. I Ve emptied my old hiding-place this time, and I 'm bound to land this cargo in the cave. What I '11 do then I don't know; but I won't let that crew of robbers get it. And they sha'n't get me, either. In another forest place, there was a long but not very wide level of rich green grass, surrounded by remarkable trees, some of which were enormously tall; and it seeme...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217287210 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217287212 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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