{"product_id":"2940013232358","title":"BLUE LIGHTS","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHOT WORK IN THE SOUDAN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FALSE STEP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America,\u003cbr\u003ewhereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter.  It is\u003cbr\u003eof crystal clearness and profound depth, and on the still evenings of\u003cbr\u003ethe Indian summer its surface forms a perfect mirror, which might serve\u003cbr\u003eas a toilet-glass for a Redskin princess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe have stood by the side of that lakelet and failed to note the\u003cbr\u003eslightest symptom of motion in it, yet somewhere in its centre there was\u003cbr\u003egoing on a constant and mysterious division of watery particles, and\u003cbr\u003ethose of them which glided imperceptibly to the right flowed southward\u003cbr\u003eto the Atlantic, while those that trembled to the left found a\u003cbr\u003eresting-place by the frozen shores of Hudson's Bay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs it is with the flow and final exit of those waters, so is it,\u003cbr\u003esometimes, if not always, with the spirit and destiny of man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles Milton, our hero, at the age of nineteen, stood at the dividing\u003cbr\u003eridge of his life.  If the oscillating spirit, trembling between right\u003cbr\u003eand wrong, had decided to lean to the right, what might have been his\u003cbr\u003efate no one can tell.  He paused on the balance a short time, then he\u003cbr\u003eleaned over to the left, and what his fate was it is the purpose of this\u003cbr\u003evolume to disclose.  At the outset, we may remark that it was not\u003cbr\u003eunmixed good.  Neither was it unmitigated evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles had a strong body, a strong will, and a somewhat passionate\u003cbr\u003etemper: a compound which is closely allied to dynamite!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis father, unfortunately, was composed of much the same materials.  The\u003cbr\u003econsequences were sometimes explosive.  It might have profited the son\u003cbr\u003emuch had he studied the Scripture lesson, \"Children, obey your parents\u003cbr\u003ein the Lord.\"  Not less might it have benefited the father to have\u003cbr\u003epondered the words, \"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung Milton had set his heart on going into the army.  Old Milton had\u003cbr\u003eresolved to thwart the desire of his son.  The mother Milton, a meek and\u003cbr\u003eloving soul, experienced some hard times between the two.  Both loved\u003cbr\u003e_her_ intensely, and each loved himself, not better perhaps, but too\u003cbr\u003emuch!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a sad task to have to recount the disputes between a father and a\u003cbr\u003eson.  We shrink from it and turn away.  Suffice it to say that one day\u003cbr\u003eMiles and his father had a Vesuvian meeting on the subject of the army.\u003cbr\u003eThe son became petulant and unreasonable; the father fierce and\u003cbr\u003etyrannical.  The end was that they parted in anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Go, sir,\" cried the father sternly; \"when you are in a better frame of\u003cbr\u003emind you may return.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145609560304,"sku":"2940013232358","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013232358_p0.jpg?v=1763578687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013232358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}