This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... bedrooms with heavy hearts. It was a long time before Jack fell asleep, and when he did so, he had all kinds of troubled dreams. His last dream was that he was carrying Adolphus, wounded, on his back, and had to make superhuman efforts against a storm of wind and hail. His struggles were so great that they woke him, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... bedrooms with heavy hearts. It was a long time before Jack fell asleep, and when he did so, he had all kinds of troubled dreams. His last dream was that he was carrying Adolphus, wounded, on his back, and had to make superhuman efforts against a storm of wind and hail. His struggles were so great that they woke him, and he immediately perceived that what had suggested the idea of the hail was, that some one was throwing gravel up against his window, and the noise it made against the glass was exactly like that of hail. At first he felt a little frightened, but when he remembered that burglars or murderers were not in the habit of attracting attention to their whereabouts, he crept over to the window, drew back the curtain, and opened the shutters a few inches. As he did so, he found that the day had already broken, and that the sky was tinged with the glorious crimson which announces the sunrise. At first he could see nothing to account for the noise which he had heard, but in a few minutes he saw a boy's form creep out from some evergreens underneath the window, and stoop down to the ground for another handful of gravel. When he raised his face to take aim at the window, what was Jack's astonishment to find that the boy was no other than Roger Gordon. Then the thought suddenly flashed through his mind that he had come at this early hour to bring news of Adolphus, and that it might, perhaps, be the awful tidings of death! He was about to raise the sash of the window, when he saw Roger shake his head at him vehemently, put his finger across his lips to impose silence, and make signs that he was to come down stairs and out to him. More than ever convinced that the news to be communicated must be fatal, and that, therefore, the house was not to be disturbed a...
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