For Treasure Bound

By: Collingwood, Harry

Book Excerpt: ...d nearly half an hour of anguish.It fortunately happened that, just as I had come to this resolution, a gentleman rode up, and learning who we had inside, volunteered his services. I immediately accepted them, desiring him to ride back to the town, and despatch to my house the ablest physician he could find. When the 'bus drew up at our door, the doctor was there in readiness for his patient, whom we lifted out, apparently in the last stage of exhaustion, and carried carefully into the house and upstairs into my own room, where my sister (advertised by Bob, who had made the best of his way home on foot) had a cheerful fire blazing in the grate, hot water in abundance, and everything else ready that her womanly sympathy could suggest.CHAPTER TWO.THE SECRET.The doctor remained with the sick man more than half an hour; and when I heard his footstep descending the staircase I went out and met him."The poor fel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JB79595
• ISBN13: 9798681642237
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"