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The Peril Finders, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Peril Finders
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Harold Piffard
Release Date: May 11, 2008 [EBook #25429]
Language: English
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The Peril Finders
CHAPTER ONE.
THE WESTERN PARADISE.
"Well, boys, where have you been?"
The speaker, a sturdy-looking, sun-tanned man, seated upon a home-made stool at a rough home-made table in a home-made house of rugged, coarsely-sawn boards, with an open roof covered in with what one of the boys had called wooden slates, had looked up from his writing, and as he spoke carefully wiped his pen--for pens were scarce--and corked the little stone bottle of ink so that it should not evaporate in the super-heated atmosphere, before it was wanted again for the writing of one of the rare letters dispatched to England, these being few, the writer preferring to wait till the much-talked-of better days came--the days for which they had been patiently waiting five years.
The boys looked sharply one at the other, their eyes seeming to say, "You tell him!" But neither of them