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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE MAJOR EXPLAINS. "Well," began the major, "I suppose you are all naturally curious concerning that wallet of mine." The four lads nodded attentively. "I must admit we are," volunteered Rob. They were gathered in the library of Mr. Blake's home. The banker was seated in his own pet chair, while the major stood with his back to a bookcase, a group of eager-eyed Boy Scouts surrounding him. "In the first place," continued the major, "I think you would better all sit down. The story is a somewhat lengthy one." The boys obeyed, and the major began: "I shall have to take you back more than a century," he said, "to the days when the first settlers located adjacent to the south banks of LakeChamplain. Among the colonists were my ancestors, Chisholm Dangerfield and his family. Chisholm Dangerfield was the eldest son of the Dangerfield family, of Chester, England. He had been left an ample fortune, but having squandered it, decided, like many others in a similar case, to emigrate to the new country. "On arrival here, he and his family went up the river to Albany, and there, hearing of new settlements along the lake, decided to take up land there. They went most of the way by water, being much harassed by Indians on the journey. But without any serious mishaps, they finally arrived at their destination, and, in course of time, established a flourishing farm. But Chisholm Dangerfield had a younger brother, a harum- scarum sort of youth, to whom, nevertheless, he was much attached. When quite young, this lad had run away to sea, and little had been heard of him since that time. "But while his family had remained in ignorance of his whereabouts, he had joined a band ofWest Indian pirates, and in course of time amassed a considerable fortune. Then a d...

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