The Young Bank Messenger
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Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult fiction novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags to riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Horatio Alger Jr. published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875. In 1853-54, he published short stories with Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Comp...
Chapters (49)
- THE YOUNG BANK MESSENGER
- HORATIO ALGER, JR.
- AUTHOR OF "RAGGED DICK SERIES," "NEW WORLD SERIES," ETC.
- THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, TORONTO.
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- "Now tie him, Mason, while I keep him covered with the revolver." "He stood at the window and looked in."
- THE YOUNG BANK MESSENGER.
- CHAPTER I. THE LONELY CABIN.
- CHAPTER II. A DEATHBED REVELATION.
- CHAPTER III. A SUCCESSFUL ROBBERY.
- CHAPTER IV. ALONE IN THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER V. THE TRAMP TURNS UP AGAIN.
- CHAPTER VI. A CRITICAL SITUATION.
- CHAPTER VII. ON THE ROAD.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE QUAKER DETECTIVE.
- CHAPTER IX. AN ARMED ESCORT.
- CHAPTER X. THE ASTONISHED OUTLAW.
- "Now tie him, Mason, while I keep him covered with the revolver."
- CHAPTER XI. UNDER WATCH AND WARD.
- CHAPTER XII. THE OUTLAW'S ESCAPE.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE OUTLAW'S MISTAKE.
- CHAPTER XIV. ERNEST HAS AN ADVENTURE.
- CHAPTER XV. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE OUTLAW'S HOME,
- CHAPTER XVII. IN THE ROBBER'S CAVE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE OUTLAW AND HIS BAND.
- CHAPTER XIX. A DAY IN THE CAVE.
- CHAPTER XX. ERNEST EXPLORES THE CAVE.
- CHAPTER XXI. OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE.
- CHAPTER XXII. A FRIEND IN NEED.
- CHAPTER XXIII. GIVEN IN TRUST.
- CHAPTER XXIV. STEPHEN RAY AND HIS SON.
- CHAPTER XXV. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
- CHAPTER XXVI. BOUGHT OFF.
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE TOWN OF OREVILLE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE TURNS UP.
- CHAPTER XXIX. TOM BURNS MAKES A CALL.
- CHAPTER XXX. A BURGLAR'S FAILURE.
- "He stood at the window and looked in."
- CHAPTER XXXI. THE ADVERTISEMENT.
- CHAPTER XXXII. MR. BOLTON AS A HUSTLER.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RESULT OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. A STRANGE MEETING.
- CHAPTER XXXV. MR. BOLTON AND HIS CLIENT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. AN IMPORTANT INTERVIEW.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. CONCLUSION.
- THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.'S POPULAR JUVENILES.
- THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., PHILADELPHIA
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