Dusk -- of a summer night.And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants -- such walls as intime may li...
Chapter 5 David comes homeWe decided that Alan would stay hidden in the fields, while I walked to Queensferry to find Mr Rankeillor. Alan promised not...
Chapter 4 Escape through the heatherWe had no time for conversation. "Come!" Alan said,and started running along the side of the hill, keepi...
Chapter 3 David is aloneIt was a cold night, so I could not sit down to rest. In stead, I walked up and down on the beach, trying to keep warm. There ...
Chapter 2 KidnappedWhen I woke up in darkness, my head was hurting badly, and I was unable to move my hands or feet. "I could hear the sailors&qu...
Chapter 1 David meets his uncleIt was early in the month of June, 1751, when I shut the door of our house behind me for the last time. All my life I h...
Some detachments rapped at each door, then disappeared into the houses. It was occupation after invasion. Then the duty commences for the conquered to...
For many days now the fag-end of the army had been straggling through the town. They were not troops, but a disbanded horde. The beards of the men wer...
"But," said the genius, "if I grant you the delay you ask, I am afraid that you will not come back.""I give you my word of ho...
Sire, there was once upon a time a merchant who possessed great wealth, in land and merchandise, as well as in ready money. He was obliged from time t...