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CAMP VENTURE

A Story of the Virginia Mountains

by

GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

Author of "A Carolina Cavalier," "The Last of the Flatboats," etc., etc.

Illustrated by W. A. McCullough

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company 1901

Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company.

All Rights Reserved

_CONTENTS_

CHAPTER PAGE

I. On the Mountain Side 11

II. A Picket Shot 30

III. The Doctor's Plans 40

IV. A New Declaration of Independence 46

V. The Building of a Cabin 55

VI. After Supper 71

VII. A "Painter" 78

VIII. The Condition of the Moonshiners 94

IX. A Sunday Discussion 100

X. Beginning Work 108

XI. An Armed Negotiation 115

XII. A Midnight Alarm 122

XIII. A Night of Searching 129

XIV. Tom Gives an Account of Himself 136

XV. Two Shots that Hit 142

XVI. The Doctor Explains 156

XVII. Christmas in Camp Venture 165

XVIII. Parole 175

XIX. A Stress of Circumstances 188

XX. In Perilous Plight 199

XXI. An Enemy to the Rescue 205

XXII. All Night Work 211

XXIII. A Loan Negotiated 224

XXIV. In the High Mountains 232

XXV. A Difficulty 247

XXVI. The Doctor's Talk 254

XXVII. Some Features of the Situation 262

XXVIII. The Capture of Camp Venture 268

XXIX. A Puzzling Situation 285

XXX. A Point of Honor 297

XXXI. Corporal Jenkins's March 301

XXXII. The Lieutenant's Wrath 307

XXXIII. A Homing Prospect 312

XXXIV. In the Hands of the Enemy 317

XXXV. The End of Camp Venture 326

XXXVI. A Start Down the Mountain 332

XXXVII. Down the Mountain 339

XXXVIII. Old King Coal 344

XXXIX. The Doctor Sings 351

XL. Tom's Journey 358

XLI. "His Majesty the King" 366

XLII. In the Service of the King 381

XLIII. The Camp Venture Mining Company 389

XLIV. Little Tom at the End of it All 396

CAMP VENTURE