Brave and BoldPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The main schoolroom in the Millville Academy was brilliantly lighted, and the various desks were occupied by boys and girls of different ages from ten to eighteen, all busily writing under the general direction of Professor George W. Granville, Instructor in Plain and Ornamental Penmanship. Professor Granville, as he styled himself, was a traveling teacher, and generally had two or three evening schools in progress in different places at the same time. He was really a very good penman, and in a course of twelve lessons, for which he charged the very moderate price of a dollar, not, of course, inclu-ding stationery, he contrived to impart considerable instruction, and such pupils as chose to learn were likely to profit by his instructions. His venture in Millville had been unusually successful. There were a hundred pupils on his list, and there had been no disturbance during the course of lessons. |
Contents
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5 DISCHARGED | 35 |
6 HALBERTS DISCOMFITURE | 43 |
7 THE STRANGE PASSENGER | 52 |
8 THE OLD FARMHOUSE | 61 |
19 THE MESSAGE FROM THE SEA | 144 |
20 A DISAGEEEABLE SURPRISE | 152 |
21 A DENIAL | 158 |
22 ROBERTS NEW PROJECT | 166 |
23 A DISHONEST BAGGAGESMASHER | 174 |
24 A GOOD BEGINNING | 183 |
25 A DECLARATION OF WAR | 191 |
26 OUT ON THE OCEAN | 199 |
9 THE UNWELCOME GUEST | 67 |
10 UNCLE AND NEPHEW | 75 |
11 ROBERT COMES TO THE RESCUE | 82 |
12 ESCAPE | 90 |
13 REVENGE | 96 |
14 TWO UNSATISFACTORY INTERVIEWS | 104 |
15 HALBERTS MALICE | 112 |
16 ON THE RAILROAD TRACK | 121 |
17 THE YOUNG CAPITALIST | 129 |
18 A VISIT TO THE LAWYER | 136 |
27 FRANK PRICE | 207 |
28 THE NEW CAPTAIN | 214 |
29 THE CAPTAINS REVENGE | 222 |
30 A FRIEND IN NEED | 230 |
31 THE ISLAND REALM | 238 |
32 A SUCCESSFUL MISSION | 245 |
33 DEFEATED | 254 |
34 THE CUP AND THE LIP | 262 |
35 CONCLUSION | 271 |
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