The Sky-Man
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Mystery! Adventure! Romance! The outcast inventor of a flying apparatus. A courageous woman searching for her lost father, a famous explorer. A murderous pirate who lusts after fabulous treasure ... and the explorer's daughter. When a storm leaves these three stranded in an uncharted Arctic wilderness for six long, dark winter months, who will survive - and how? Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories and novels with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world.
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Chapter 1: The Man with Wings. 5
Chapter 2: The Girl on the Ice Floe. 10
Chapter 3: The Murderers. 15
Chapter 4: The Throwing-Stick. 21
Chapter 5: The Dart 27
Chapter 6: Tom's Confession. 32
Chapter 7: The Rosewood Box. 37
Chapter 8: Apparitions. 41
Chapter 9: Waiting for Dawn. 45
Chapter 10: What the Dawn Brought 50
Chapter 11: The Aurora. 55
Chapter 12: Cayley's Promise. 59
Chapter 13: Captain Fielding's Gospel 65
Chapter 14: The Red Bound Book. 70
Chapter 15: Discoveries. 76
Chapter 16: Footprints. 81
Chapter 17: The Beast 85
Chapter 18: A State of Siege. 87
Chapter 19: An Attack. 91
Chapter 20: Roscoe. 96
Chapter 21: A Moonlit Day. 100
Chapter 22: A Sortie. 105
Chapter 23: In the Pilot House. 110
Chapter 24: Signals. 117
Chapter 25: Unwinged. 122
A Note on Google Books. 128
About the (OCR) Editor 129
