{"product_id":"2940013269835","title":"THE FOREST RUNNERS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I.  PAUL                          1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II.  IN THE RIVER                 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.  THE LONE CABIN               36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV.  THE SIEGE                    59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V.  THE FLIGHT                   72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI.  THE BATTLE ON THE HILL       91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.  WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DARK   108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII.  AT THE RIVER BANK           125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX.  A CHANGE OF PLACES          142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X.  THE ISLAND IN THE LAKE      157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI.  A SUDDEN MEETING            176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.  THE BELT BEARERS            192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII.  BRAXTON WYATT'S ORDEAL      217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.  IN WINTER QUARTERS          239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV.  WORK AND PLAY               254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.  NOEL                        273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII.  FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW      283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII.  WHAT THE WARRIOR SAW        295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX.  THE WARNING                 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XX.  THE TERRIBLE FORD           328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXI.  THE FLIGHT OF LONG JIM      340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XXII.  THE LAST STAND              355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FOREST RUNNERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAUL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul stopped in a little open space, and looked around all the circle of\u003cbr\u003ethe forest. Everywhere it was the same--just the curving wall of red and\u003cbr\u003ebrown, and beyond, the blue sky, flecked with tiny clouds of white. The\u003cbr\u003ewilderness was full of beauty, charged with the glory of peace and\u003cbr\u003esilence, and there was naught to indicate that man had ever come. The\u003cbr\u003eleaves rippled a little in the gentle west wind, and the crisping grass\u003cbr\u003ebowed before it; but Paul saw no living being, save himself, in the vast,\u003cbr\u003eempty world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe boy was troubled and, despite his life in the woods, he had full right\u003cbr\u003eto be. This was the great haunted forest of _Kain-tuck-ee_, where the red\u003cbr\u003eman made his most desperate stand, and none ever knew when or whence\u003cbr\u003edanger would come. Moreover, he was lost, and the forest told him nothing;\u003cbr\u003ehe was not like his friend, Henry Ware, born to the forest, the heir to\u003cbr\u003eall the primeval instincts, alive to every sight and sound, and able to\u003cbr\u003eread the slightest warning the wilderness might give. Paul Cotter was a\u003cbr\u003estudent, a lover of books, and a coming statesman. Fate, it seemed, had\u003cbr\u003echosen that he and Henry Ware should go hand in hand, but for different\u003cbr\u003etasks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul gazed once more around the circle of the glowing forest, and the\u003cbr\u003eshadow in his eyes deepened. Henry and the horses, loaded with powder for\u003cbr\u003ethe needy settlement, must be somewhere near, but whether to right or left\u003cbr\u003ehe could not tell. He had gone to look for water, and when he undertook to\u003cbr\u003ereturn he merely went deeper and deeper into the forest. Now the boughs,\u003cbr\u003eas they nodded before the gentle breeze, seemed to nod to him in derision.\u003cbr\u003eHe felt shame as well as alarm. Henry would not laugh at him, but the born\u003cbr\u003escholar would be worth, for the time, at least, far less than the born\u003cbr\u003etrailer.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181310623984,"sku":"2940013269835","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013269835_p0.jpg?v=1763579029","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013269835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}