Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains

  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 & ShepardCompany1901

  Copyright, 1901,by Lothrop Publishing Company.

  All Rights Reserved

  TOM LEAPED UPON THE MOUNTAINEER'S BACK.]

  _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