The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley
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Chapters (51)
- Bertram Mitford "The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
- Chapter One.
- Crossing the Durban Bar.
- Chapter Two.
- Strangers in a Strange Land.
- Chapter Three.
- A Friend.
- Chapter Four.
- John Dawes, Transport-Rider.
- Chapter Five.
- Anstey’s Store.
- Chapter Six.
- Gerard is Launched.
- Chapter Seven.
- Sobuza, the Zulu.
- Chapter Eight.
- Down.
- Chapter Nine.
- Up.
- Chapter Ten.
- A Piece of Zulu Jockeying.
- Chapter Eleven.
- A New Terror.
- Chapter Twelve.
- Mutiny.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- The Igazipuza.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- “The Lion’s Den.”
- Chapter Fifteen.
- “The Tooth.”
- Chapter Sixteen.
- The Attempted Escape.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- How Dawes Fared.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- How Gerard Fared.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Between Two Perils.
- Chapter Twenty.
- An Error of Judgment.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- The King’s “Hunting-Dogs.”
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- The Two Emissaries.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- The Work of “Suppression.”
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- The Last of the Freebooters.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- The Last of all our Friends.
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