Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 356
een twenty years, it mighthave been but a year before, that LieutenantStrain led his brave little band into the deadlytropic wilderness of Darien. It is doubt-ful if those child-readers knew why he wassent, by whom, or what to do. The begin-ning of the narrative was in a missing num-ber of the… … UP THE LADDER TO THE SCUTTLE. conduct under trial. They agonized with Trux-ton over his divided duty, and wept at his allbut dying words: Did I do right, Strain? They worshiped, with unquestioning faith,at the shrine of that factitious god of battles,Abbotts Napoleon. With beating hearts andburning…
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