{"product_id":"2940013321373","title":"IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES","description":"CHAP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. TOM'S CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e   II. FINDING FRIENDS\u003cbr\u003e  III. ON THE PLAINS\u003cbr\u003e   IV. LEAPING HORSE\u003cbr\u003e    V. IN DANGER\u003cbr\u003e   VI. UNITED\u003cbr\u003e  VII. CHASED\u003cbr\u003e VIII. IN SAFETY\u003cbr\u003e   IX. A BAD TIME\u003cbr\u003e    X. AN AVALANCHE\u003cbr\u003e   XI. WINTER\u003cbr\u003e  XII. THE SNOW FORT\u003cbr\u003e XIII. A FRESH START\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. AN INDIAN ATTACK\u003cbr\u003e   XV. THE COLORADO\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. AFLOAT IN CANOES\u003cbr\u003e XVII. THE GRAND CANON\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. BACK TO DENVER\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. A FORTUNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOM'S CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can be of no use here, Carry. What am I good for? Why, I could not\u003cbr\u003eearn money enough to pay for my own food, even if we knew anyone who\u003cbr\u003ewould help me to get a clerkship. I am too young for it yet. I would\u003cbr\u003erather go before the mast than take a place in a shop. I am too young\u003cbr\u003eeven to enlist. I know just about as much as other boys at school, and I\u003cbr\u003ecertainly have no talent anyway, as far as I can see at present. I can\u003cbr\u003esail a boat, and I won the swimming prize a month ago, and the sergeant\u003cbr\u003ewho gives us lessons in single-stick and boxing says that he considers\u003cbr\u003eme his best pupil with the gloves, but all these things put together\u003cbr\u003ewould not bring me in sixpence a week. I don't want to go away, and\u003cbr\u003enothing would induce me to do so if I could be of the slightest use to\u003cbr\u003eyou here. But can I be of any use? What is there for me to look forward\u003cbr\u003eto if I stay? I am sure that you would be always worrying over me if I\u003cbr\u003edid get some sort of situation that you would know father and mother\u003cbr\u003ewould not have liked to see me in, and would seem to offer no chance for\u003cbr\u003ethe future, whereas if I went out there it would not matter what I did,\u003cbr\u003eand anything I earned I could send home to you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe speaker was a lad of sixteen. He and his sister, who was two years\u003cbr\u003ehis senior, were both dressed in deep mourning, and were sitting on a\u003cbr\u003ebench near Southsea Castle looking across to Spithead, and the Isle of\u003cbr\u003eWight stretching away behind. They had three days before followed their\u003cbr\u003emother to the grave, and laid her beside their father, a lieutenant of\u003cbr\u003ethe navy, who had died two years before. This was the first time they\u003cbr\u003ehad left the house, where remained their four sisters--Janet, who came\u003cbr\u003ebetween Carry and Tom; Blanche, who was fourteen; Lucie, twelve; and\u003cbr\u003eHarriet, eight. Tom had proposed the walk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come out for some fresh air, Carry,\" he had said. \"You have been shut\u003cbr\u003eup for a month. Let us two go together;\" and Carry had understood that\u003cbr\u003ehe wanted a talk alone with her. There was need, indeed, that they\u003cbr\u003eshould look the future in the face. Since Lieutenant Wade's death their\u003cbr\u003emeans had been very straitened. Their mother had received a small\u003cbr\u003epension as his widow, and on this, eked out by drafts reluctantly drawn\u003cbr\u003eupon the thousand pounds she had brought him on her marriage, which had\u003cbr\u003ebeen left untouched during his lifetime, they had lived since his death.\u003cbr\u003eTwo hundred pounds had been drawn from their little capital, and the\u003cbr\u003ebalance was all that now remained. It had long been arranged that Carry\u003cbr\u003eand Janet should go out as governesses as soon as they each reached the\u003cbr\u003eage of eighteen, but it was now clear that Carry must remain at home in\u003cbr\u003echarge of the young ones.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157382775024,"sku":"2940013321373","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013321373_p0.jpg?v=1763579390","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013321373","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}