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Wrecked on Spider; Or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure
Wrecked on Spider Or How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure Author:James Otis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: A. L. Burt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. MAROONED. Ned remained exactly as Mr. Stout had left him until the little craft was alongside the brig, hoisted on board, and the Evening Star, swinging around into the wind, was standing off on her course once more. During all this time the mate had not, so far as he could tell, looked at him for a single instant, and this apparent lack of sympathy puzzled Ned. " I don't see what makes him so queer," he said to himself as he watched the vessel rapidly drawing away from the tiny island upon which he had been landed. " The captain seemed kind enough while I was locked in the state-room; but neither he nor the mate acted as if they felt bad because I had to go away." Then once more he wondered what leprosy was, which necessitated his leaving the brig so suddenly, and to neither of these mental questions could he give a satisfactory reply. The packages which had been brought ashore weretoo numerous to admit of his carrying them at one load, and he decided to leave everything, except the articles given him by the mate, on the beach until he could locate the village. The fishing-lines, knife, and matches he put in his pockets, covered the other goods with the rubber coat, and when the Evening Star had faded away in the distance to a mere smudge on the horizon, he set out in search of the inhabitants of the island. It was about noon when he came ashore, and since then fully two hours had been spent watching the brig. The heat seemed intense, and the glare of the sun on the white sands nearly blinded him. " There's no use standing here any longer," he said ...« less