| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | Overboard! | [ 7] |
| II. | Where is the Watch? | [ 21] |
| III. | The Trial | [ 41] |
| IV. | Fire! | [ 52] |
| V. | In the Den | [ 74] |
| VI. | A Small Hero | [ 92] |
| VII. | Oak Leaves and Hay | [ 110] |
| VIII. | Poor Tom! | [ 129] |
| IX. | A Mountain Camp | [ 137] |
| X. | The Storm | [ 158] |
| XI. | The Great Base-Ball Match | [ 172] |
| XII. | Hunted to Earth | [ 185] |
| XIII. | Found at Last | [ 196] |
| XIV. | Quiet Days at The Pines | [ 207] |
| XV. | Good-bye! | [ 216] |
SILVER RAGS.
CHAPTER I.
OVERBOARD.
“HELP! Help!”
It was a girl’s voice, clear and sharp with distress. The cry echoed over Loon Pond, and rang through the woods which surrounded its dimpled waters.
In a small, flat-bottomed boat, about fifty yards from the shore, crouched a young girl of perhaps sixteen years, her face blanched with terror as she gazed into the depths beneath and uttered again and again that piercing cry:
“Help! O quick, quick! Help!”
Something dark rose slowly to the surface of the pond, and a small white hand waved frantically in the air a moment, then sank, struggling, out of sight. Again it came up, this time more quietly, and again disappeared, while the occupant of the boat screamed louder, her voice breaking into sobs. The only oar to be seen was floating quietly on the water, almost within reach.
“Help!”
Would no one come? The birches that crowned the hill-top close by shivered in the sunlight; on the farther shore, the pines stood motionless in dark, silent ranks.