The Fire Trumpet: A Romance of the Cape Frontier
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Chapters (106)
- Bertram Mitford "The Fire Trumpet" "A Romance of the Cape Frontier"
- Volume One—Chapter One.
- A Queer Legacy.
- Volume One—Chapter Two.
- The Legatee.
- Volume One—Chapter Three.
- The Slave Settlement.
- Volume One—Chapter Four.
- Seringa Vale.
- Volume One—Chapter Five.
- The Biter Bitten.
- Volume One—Chapter Six.
- In a New Line.
- Volume One—Chapter Seven.
- The cattle-branding.
- Volume One—Chapter Eight.
- Spoek Krantz.
- Volume One—Chapter Nine.
- In Which the Reader Becomes a Party to More Chaff.
- Volume One—Chapter Ten.
- Caveant!
- Volume One—Chapter Eleven.
- Venatorial.
- Volume One—Chapter Twelve.
- A Wild Night.
- Volume One—Chapter Thirteen.
- “Like Thunderbolt from a clear sky.”
- Volume One—Chapter Fourteen.
- Lilian.
- Volume One—Chapter Fifteen.
- In a Single Day.
- Volume One—Chapter Sixteen.
- “Mingle Shades of Joy and Woe.”
- Volume One—Chapter Seventeen.
- Baulked.
- Volume One—Chapter Eighteen.
- “At the Full of the Moon.”
- Volume One—Chapter Nineteen.
- “What has the World been Since?—Thee Alone!”
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty.
- One Golden Day.
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty One.
- Hicks Waxes Intrepid.
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty Two.
- The Bushman’s Cave.
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty Three.
- “Sunshine Outside—Ice at the Core.”
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty Four.
- Forth—a Wanderer.
- Volume One—Chapter Twenty Five.
- “I Die, and Far Away. Hast Thou Known?”
- Part II.
- Volume Two—Chapter One.
- “Is it Peace or War? Better War.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Two.
- Ralph Truscott’s Quest.
- Volume Two—Chapter Three.
- The Friend in Need.
- Volume Two—Chapter Four.
- “So the Face before her Lived, Dark-Splendid...”
- Volume Two—Chapter Five.
- Sandili.
- Volume Two—Chapter Six.
- The Fire Trumpet.
- Volume Two—Chapter Seven.
- A Timely Flight.
- Volume Two—Chapter Eight.
- The Attack on the “Great Place.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Nine.
- A Lull in the Storm.
- Volume Two—Chapter Ten.
- The Fire Trumpet Again.
- Volume Two—Chapter Eleven.
- “Have you no Secret Enemy?”
- Volume Two—Chapter Twelve.
- “The Land is Dead.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Thirteen.
- The Main Camp.
- Volume Two—Chapter Fourteen.
- “Summer has Stopped.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Fifteen.
- “There is One amongst us Missing.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Sixteen.
- Face to Face.
- Volume Two—Chapter Seventeen.
- “Give us Long Rest... Dare Death or Dreamful Ease.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Eighteen.
- Trapped.
- Volume Two—Chapter Nineteen.
- The Darkest Hour.
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty.
- Through the Heart of the Earth.
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty One.
- ”...In Ever Climbing up the Climbing Wave.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Two.
- The “Word” of the Great Chief.
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Three.
- “A Life for a Life.”
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Four.
- Vae Victis!
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Five.
- A Voice out of the Past.
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Six.
- In Peace.
- Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Seven.
- Curtain.
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