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Title: Lister's Great Adventure

Author: Harold Bindloss

Release Date: November 13, 2003 [eBook #10076]

Language: English

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LISTER'S GREAT ADVENTURE

BY HAROLD BINDLOSS

_Author_ of "THE WILDERNESS MINE," "WYNDHAM'S PAL," "PARTNERS OF THE
OUT-TRAIL," "THE BUCCANEER FARMER," "THE LURE OF THE NORTH," "THE GIRL
FROM KELLER'S," "CARMEN'S MESSENGER," ETC.

1920

CONTENTS

PART I--BARBARA'S REBELLION

CHAPTER

I CARTWRIGHT MEDDLES

II IN THE DARK

III BARBARA VANISHES

IV THE GIRL ON THE PLATFORM

V SHILLITO GETS AWAY

VI WINNIPEG BEACH

VII LISTER'S DISSATISFACTION

VIII THE TEST

IX BARBARA PLAYS A PART

X VERNON'S CURIOSITY

PART II--THE RECKONING

I VERNON'S PLOT

II BARBARA'S RETURN

III LISTER CLEARS THE GROUND

IV A DISSATISFIED SHAREHOLDER

V CARTWRIGHT'S SCRUPLES

VI A NASTY KNOCK

VII THE SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING

VIII A STOLEN EXCURSION

IX CARTWRIGHT SEES A PLAN

X A BOLD SPECULATION

XI THE START

PART III--THE BREAKING STRAIN

I THE FIRST STRUGGLE

II THE WRECK

III A FUEL PROBLEM

IV MONTGOMERY'S OFFER

V MONTGOMERY USES HIS POWER

VI LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST

VII BARBARA'S REFUSAL

VIII CARTWRIGHT GETS TO WORK

IX LISTER MAKES GOOD

X BARBARA TAKES CONTROL

XI LISTER'S REWARD

PART I--BARBARA'S REBELLION

CHAPTER I

CARTWRIGHT MEDDLES

Dinner was over, and Cartwright occupied a chair on the lawn in front of
the Canadian summer hotel. Automatic sprinklers threw sparkling showers
across the rough, parched grass, the lake shimmered, smooth as oil, in
the sunset, and a sweet, resinous smell drifted from the pines that
rolled down to the water's edge. The straight trunks stood out against a
background of luminous red and green, and here and there a slanting beam
touched a branch with fire.

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