The Pirate of Jasper Peak

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[By Cornelia Meigs, writing as Adair Aldon.]

"The Pirate of Jasper Peak" is a little more toward the juvenile in that its hero is a tenderfoot of sixteen; but it is not written in the salad style of the usual "boy's book". Hugh Arnold is too young for college or war-service, and when his father goes over with the Medical Corps, he sets out to visit some friends at a little mountain town in Minnesota. When he gets there, the friends have vanished, lost in the mountains. There is a bad man in the neighborhood (see title) who is supposed to have had something to do with their disappearance, but there is no telling. The villagers, chiefly well-meaning Swedes, are thrifty and industrious people, but their little holdings of land near the village are barren, and their road to fertile lands beyond is blocked by the ferocious "pirate", who will let nobody settle near his domain.... —H. W. Boyntown, A Roundup of Western Stories

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THE PIRATE OF JASPER PEAK

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Close to the hearth a big chair had been drawn and in this some one was sitting.

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THE PIRATE
OF JASPER PEAK


BY
ADAIR ALDON
Author of “The Island of Appledore,” etc.

WITH FRONTISPIECE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918

All rights reserved

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Copyright, 1918
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, September, 1918

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CONTENTS

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  2. I
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  3. II
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  4. III
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  5. IV
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  6. V
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  7. VI
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  8. VII
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  9. VIII
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  10. IX
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  11. X
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    		186
  12. XI
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  13. XII
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