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JULIAN MORTIMER;

A Brave Boy’s Struggle for Home and Fortune

by

HARRY CASTLEMON,

Author of The “Gunboat Series,” “The Boy Trapper,” “Sportsman’s Club Series,” etc., etc.

Illustrated.

A. L. Burt Company, Publishers New York

Copyright, 1873, by Street & Smith. Copyright, 1887, by A. L. Burt. Copyright, 1901, by Charles S. Fosdick.

JULIAN MORTIMER.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

JULIAN MORTIMER

I. THE WAGON TRAIN 5
II. JULIAN HEARS SOMETHING 11
III. A RIDE IN THE DARK 18
IV. JULIAN FINDS A RELATIVE 30
V. JULIAN’S HOME 38
VI. JULIAN MEETS A STRANGER 46
VII. THE FLIGHT 55
VIII. CHASED BY A BLOOD-HOUND 63
IX. GOOD FOR EVIL 71
X. JULIAN HAS A VISITOR 80
XI. JACK’S PLANS 89
XII. ON BOARD THE FLATBOAT 97
XIII. IN THE SMOKE-HOUSE 108
XIV. SANDERS TELLS HIS STORY 118
XV. THE JOURNEY COMMENCED 126
XVI. SILAS ROPER, THE GUIDE 131
XVII. ACROSS THE PLAINS 139
XVIII. THE EMIGRANT AGAIN 147
XIX. UNCLE REGINALD EXPLAINS 158
XX. JULIAN GETS INTO BUSINESS 168
XXI. WHITE-HORSE FRED 177
XXII. THE SPECTERS OF THE CAVE 186
XXIII. JULIAN MAKES A DISCOVERY 196
XXIV. PEDRO MAKES ANOTHER 205
XXV. HOW IT RESULTED 211
XXVI. FRED’S STORY 221
XXVII. FRED’S STORY, CONCLUDED 232
XXVIII. THE ATTACK ON THE RANCHO 241

AN IDEA AND A FORTUNE BY OWEN HACKET. 249

THE GRANTHAM DIAMONDS BY RUSSELL STOCKTON. 265

JULIAN MORTIMER;

OR,

A Brave Boy’s Struggle for Home and Fortune.