Post Haste

By Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0000624699
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Post Haste
Author:	Ballantyne, Robert Michael
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. A Hero and His Worshipper. Once upon a time?only once, observe, she did not do it twice?a widow of the name of Maylands went, in a fit of moderate insanity, and took up her abode in a lonely, tumble?down cottage in the west of Ireland. Post Haste 1 Mrs Maylands was very poor. She was the widow of an English clergyman, who had left her with a small family and the smallest income that was compatible with that family?s maintenance. Hence the migration to Ireland, where she had been born, and where she hoped to live economically. The tumble?down cottage was near the sea, not far from a little bay named Howlin Cove. Though little it was a tremendous bay, with mighty cliffs landward, and jutting ledges on either side, and forbidding rocks at the entrance, which waged continual warfare with the great Atlantic billows that rolled into it. The whole place suggested shipwreck and smugglers.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Post Haste, 1 -- R.M. Ballantyne, 1 -- Chapter One. A Hero and His Worshipper, 1 -- Chapter Two. Tells of Woman's Work and some of Woman's Ways, 5 -- Chapter Three. Brilliant Prospects, 10 -- Chapter Four. The Royal Mail Steamer, 11 -- Chapter Five. Wreck and Rescue, 13 -- Chapter Six. Treats of Poverty, Pride, and Fidelity, 20 -- Chapter Seven. Phil Begins Life, and Makes a Friend, 26 -- Chapter Eight. Downward ? Deeper and Deeper, 31 -- Chapter Nine. Mr Blurt and George Aspel in Peculiar Circumstances, 36 -- Chapter Ten. A Mystery Cleared Up, 43 -- Chapter Eleven. The Letter?Carrier Goes His Rounds, Aids a Little Girl, and Overwhelms a Lady -- Statistically, 47 -- Chapter Twelve. In Which a Bosom Friend is Introduced, Rural Felicity is Enlarged on, and Deep -- Plans are Laid, 57 -- Chapter Thirteen. Miss Lillycrop Gets a Series of Surprises, 63 -- Chapter Fourteen. Formation of the Pegaway Literary Association and Other Matters, 72 -- Chapter Fifteen. George Aspel Receives Various Visitors at the Ornithological Shop, and is -- Called to Vigorous Action, 76 -- Chapter Sixteen. Begins with Juvenile Flirtation, and Ends with Canine Cremation, 83 -- Chapter Seventeen. Tottie and Mrs Bones in Difficulty, 88 -- Chapter Eighteen. Business Interfered with in a Remarkable Manner, 93 -- Chapter Nineteen. Deep?Laid Plans for Checkmating Mr Bones, 96 -- Chapter Twenty. The Post of the Olden Time, 99 -- Chapter Twenty One. Tells of a Series of Terrible Surprises, 105 -- Chapter Twenty Two. Shows How One Thing Leads to Another, and so on, 112 -- Chapter Twenty Three. The Turning?Point, 118 -- Chapter Twenty Four. Plans and Counter Plans, 123 -- Chapter Twenty Five. Light Shining in Dark Places, 127 -- Chapter Twenty Six. Tells of a Sham Fight and a Real Battle, 132 -- Chapter Twenty Seven. The Greatest Battle of All, 137 -- Chapter Twenty Eight. The Storming of Rocky Cottage and Other Matters, 141 -- Chapter Twenty Nine. Describes an Interview and a Rencontre, 144 -- Chapter Thirty. The Last, 149 -- Post Haste -- i