The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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Two Men and a Boy. “Steady there! Stop! Hold hard!” “What’s the matter, Mr Dale?” “Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb; but if you begin like that, the trip’s over, and we shall have to start back for England in less than a week—at least, I shall, with my luggage increased by a case containing broken boy.” There was a loud burst of hearty laughter from the manly-looking lad addressed, as he stood, with his hands clinging and his head twisted round, to look for he h
Chapters (86)
- George Manville Fenn "The Crystal Hunters"
- Chapter One.
- Two Men and a Boy.
- Chapter Two.
- An Alpine Valley.
- Chapter Three.
- Further Ideas of Magnitude.
- Chapter Four.
- On the Rope.
- Chapter Five.
- Strange Quarters.
- Chapter Six.
- A Try for Gold.
- Chapter Seven.
- Melchior grows Suspicious.
- Chapter Eight.
- An awkward Accident.
- Chapter Nine.
- The Horrors of a Schlucht.
- Chapter Ten.
- Being used to it.
- Chapter Eleven.
- A Glissade is not all Bliss.
- Chapter Twelve.
- First Mountain Climb.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Saxe goes to the Top.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- A Mountain Mist.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Caught in a Trap.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- A grave Peril.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Saxe takes a Shower-Bath.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Saxe has Suspicions.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- A Strange Incident.
- Chapter Twenty.
- A fearful Watch.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- “You think he is dead?”
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- From out of the Depths.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- A Rescue.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- A Great Call on a Boy.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- Melchior’s Adventure.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- An Expedition.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- The Black Ravine.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- The Crystal Grotto.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- An Unseen Danger.
- Chapter Thirty.
- Within a Hair’s Breadth.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- Misunderstandings.
- Chapter Thirty Two.
- The Treasure.
- Chapter Thirty Three.
- In Desperation.
- Chapter Thirty Four.
- Growing Resigned.
- Chapter Thirty Five.
- A Catastrophe.
- Chapter Thirty Six.
- From the Snow Grave.
- Chapter Thirty Seven.
- A Great Surprise.
- Chapter Thirty Eight.
- Saxe has an Antipathy.
- Chapter Thirty Nine.
- Saxe sees a Kobold.
- Chapter Forty.
- In the Ice-Cave.
- Chapter Forty One.
- Melchior wakes up.
- Chapter Forty Two.
- Clear as Crystal.
- The End.
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