Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
“If we could only keep the post office, mother, we should be all right,” said Herbert Carr, as he and his mother sat together in the little sitting room of the plain cottage which the two had occupied ever since he was a boy of five.
“Yes, Herbert, but I am afraid there won't be much chance of it.”
“Who would want to take it from you, mother?”
“Men are selfish, Herbert, and there is no office, however small, that is not sought after.”
“What was the income last year?” inquired Herbert.
Mrs. Carr referred to a blank book lying on the table in which the post-office accounts were kept, and answered:
“Three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents.”
“I shouldn't think that would be much of an inducement to an able-bodied man, who could work at any business.”
“Your father was glad to have it.”
“Yes, mother, but he had lost an arm in the war, and could not engage in any business that required both hands.”
“That is true, Herbert, but I am afraid there will be more than one who will be willing to relieve me of the duties. Old Mrs. Allen called at the office to-day, and told me she understood that there was a movement on foot to have Ebenezer Graham appointed.”
“Squire Walsingham's nephew?”
Jr. Horatio Alger
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NEW YORK
CHAPTER I. THE POST OFFICE AT WAYNEBORO.
CHAPTER II. HERBERT'S CHANCE.
CHAPTER III. A PRODIGAL SON.
CHAPTER IV. HERBERT LOSES HIS PLACE.
CHAPTER V. EBEN'S SCHEME.
CHAPTER VI. HERBERT'S GOOD LUCK.
CHAPTER VII. EBEN GROWS ENVIOUS.
CHAPTER VIII. EBEN'S ASSURANCE.
CHAPTER IX. THE SOLITARY FARMHOUSE.
CHAPTER X. AN EXCITING SCENE.
CHAPTER XI. TRIED FOR THEFT.
CHAPTER XII. EBEN'S TRUMP CARD.
CHAPTER XIII. EBEN'S LAST HOPE FAILS.
CHAPTER XIV. A TRIP TO BOSTON.
CHAPTER XV. AN OBLIGING GUIDE.
CHAPTER XVI. A NEW BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
CHAPTER XVII. AN ACCEPTABLE PRESENT.
CHAPTER XVIII. A THIEF IN TROUBLE.
CHAPTER XIX. EBENEZER GRAHAM'S GRIEF.
CHAPTER XX. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN CHICAGO.
CHAPTER XXI. COL. WARNER.
CHAPTER XXII. A MOUNTAIN STAGE.
CHAPTER XXIII. A STARTLING REVELATION.
CHAPTER XXIV. A MORNING WALK.
CHAPTER XXV. MELVILLE MAKES A SENSATION.
CHAPTER XXVI. A COUNCIL OF WAR.
CHAPTER XXVII. COL. WARNER CHANGES FRONT.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONSPIRATORS IN COUNCIL.
CHAPTER XXIX. A NEW HOME IN THE WOODS.
CHAPTER XXX. A TERRIBLE MOMENT.
CHAPTER XXXI. JACK HOLDEN ON THE INDIAN QUESTION.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BLAZING STAR MINE.
CHAPTER XXXIII. GOOD NEWS FROM THE MINE.
CHAPTER XXXIV. TWO OLD ACQUAINTANCES REAPPEAR.
CHAPTER XXXV. MELVILLE IN PERIL.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE MINE IS SOLD.
CHAPTER XXXVII. TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONCLUSION.