The Birthright

by Joseph Hocking

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Contents

1. Chapter I. Tells How the Penningtons Lost Pennington
2. Chapter II. Tells How I, Jasper Pennington, Tried to Get My Own
3. Chapter III. How I Was Robbed of Elmwater Barton; How I Flogged the Tresidders, and Was Pilloried Because of It
4. Chapter IV. I Escape from the Whipping-Post, and Find My Way to Granfer Fraddam's Cave
5. Chapter V. I See Naomi Penryn on Rock Called the Spanish Cavalier, and Rescue Her—We Escape from the Tresidders
6. Chapter VI. I Discover Another Cave, and Hear a Conversation Between Richard Tresidder and His Son
7. Chapter VII. I Hear Richard Tresidder Tell Naomi Penryn's History, and Am in Danger of Being Killed by Smugglers
8. Chapter VIII. I Go to Kynance Cove with Cap'n Jack Truscott's Gang, and Meet His Daughter Tamsin
9. Chapter IX. What Happened at Cap'n Jack's House—Tamsin's Confession, and the Smugglers' Plans
10. Chapter X. What Became of the Wreckers' Light—How I Escaped and Entered Pennington
11. Chapter XI. I See Naomi Penryn, and Am Greatly Encouraged, but Soon After Am Taken Prisoner
12. Chapter XII. How My Love Saved Me—When Free I Go to Sea, and Months Later Come Back to Betsey's Cottage and Hear Bad News
13. Chapter XIII. Betsey Fraddam and Cap'n Jack Meet—I Go to Falmouth and Meet Naomi—Afterward I See Mr. John Wesley
14. Chapter XIV. I Am Taken Prisoner, and Afterward Experience Many Strange Things—I at Length Find Myself in a Dungeon
15. Chapter XV. My Experience in My Prison—I Am Told Terrible News About Naomi
16. Chapter XVI. I Hear a Strange Noise in My Prison—The Secret Passage Which I Found—A Wild Struggle, and a Hairbreadth Escape
17. Chapter XVII. Tells of the Manner of My Escape, of the Strange Man I Met, and of Eli's Story of a Buried Treasure
18. Chapter XVIII. How I Left Bedruthen Steps and, After Meeting Tamsin Truscott, Sought for Naomi
19. Chapter XIX. Tells How I Climbed the Wall of the Manor House Garden, and What I Saw
20. Chapter XX. How I Felled a Horse with My Fist, and Carried Naomi Southward
21. Chapter XXI. How I Took Naomi to Mullion Porth and Then Started with Eli to Find the Treasure
22. Chapter XXII. How I Found the Secret of the Treasure, and Went to the Scilly Isles
23. Chapter XXIII. How We Found the Iron Box on Annette Island, and the Terrible Ending to Our Adventure
24. Chapter XXIV. Tells of the Strange Revelation Made by the Madman of Bedruthen Steps, and of Tamsin Truscott's Treachery
25. Chapter XXV. How We Went to Pennington, and How the Tresidders Won the Victory
26. Chapter XXVI. Tells of My Fortunes in Winning Back My Birthright, and Finishes the Tale

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