Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

“Take care of yourselves,” says he. “I am dead.” He tried to open his clothes as if to look for the w ...

new kind of terror. Indeed, it is one thing to stand the danger of your life, and quite another to run the ...

the firelocks bang and the balls whistle in the birches. Just inside the shelter of the trees I found Alan ...

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CHAPTER XVIII I TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE lan was the first to come round. He rose, wen ...

“Alan,” said I, “what is the sense of this? Ye ken very well yon Campbell-man lies in his blood upon ...

added. “Do you know that man in the black coat?” “I have nae clear mind about his coat,” said Alan c ...

certainly involved in the murder. “O!” says I, willing to give him a little lesson, “I have no fear ...

“But mind you,” said Alan, “it’s no small thing. Ye maun lie bare and hard, and brook many an em ...

Looking out between the trees, we could see a great side of mountain, running down exceeding steep into ...

there came a third great sea; and at that the brig lifted clean over the reef; her canvas filled ...

Riach’s stature, for, to say the truth, the one was not much smaller than the other.) “So,” says he, continui ...

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CHAPTER XIX THE HOUSE OF FEAR ight fell as we were walking, and the clouds, which had broken up in the af ...

Hereupon he whistled three times, in a particular manner. It was strange to see how, at the first sound ...

in his country too, but I am thinking it will be the better for his health if we give his name the go-by.” ...

smiling and talking at first in a very hospitable manner. But presently the gloom returned upon him; he sa ...

halfpenny, the most of it in coppers. “This’ll no do,” said Alan. “Ye must find a safe bit somewhere ...

“Nor yet they shallnae, Alan! There’s my hand on that,” cried James, for all the world as if he had ...

king—as for you, my lad,” she says, “my heart is wae not to have your name, but I have your face; ...