THE

BIRTHRIGHT

BY

JOSEPH HOCKING

Author of "All Men are Liars"

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1897

Copyright, 1896, by
Joseph Hocking

BURR PRINTING HOUSE, NEW YORK.

"I made a leap at Sam Liddicoat."

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I

Tells how the Penningtons Lost Pennington

CHAPTER II

Tells how I, Jasper Pennington, Tried to Get my Own

CHAPTER III

How I was Robbed of Elmwater Barton; how I Flogged the Tresidders, and was Pilloried because of it

CHAPTER IV

I Escape from the Whipping-post, and Find my Way To Granfer Fraddam's Cave

CHAPTER V

I See Naomi Penryn on Rock Called the Spanish Cavalier, and Rescue her—We Escape from the Tresidders

CHAPTER VI

I Discover Another Cave, and Hear a Conversation Between Richard Tresidder and his Son

CHAPTER VII

I Hear Richard Tresidder Tell Naomi Penryn's History, and am in Danger of being Killed by Smugglers

CHAPTER VIII

I Go to Kynance Cove with Cap'n Jack Truscott's Gang, and Meet his Daughter Tamsin

CHAPTER IX

What Happened at Cap'n Jack's House—Tamsin's Confession, and the Smugglers' Plans

CHAPTER X

What Became of the Wreckers' Light—How I Escaped and Entered Pennington

CHAPTER XI

I See Naomi Penryn, and am Greatly Encouraged, but soon after am Taken Prisoner

CHAPTER XII

How my Love Saved me—When Free I Go to Sea, and Months Later Come Back to Betsey's Cottage and Hear Bad News

CHAPTER XIII

Betsey Fraddam and Cap'n Jack Meet—I Go to Falmouth and Meet Naomi—Afterward I See Mr. John Wesley

CHAPTER XIV

I am Taken Prisoner, and afterward Experience many Strange Things—I at Length Find Myself in a Dungeon

CHAPTER XV

My Experience in my Prison—I am Told Terrible News about Naomi

CHAPTER XVI

I Hear a Strange Noise in my Prison—The Secret Passage which I Found—A Wild Struggle, and a Hairbreadth Escape

CHAPTER XVII

Tells of the Manner of my Escape, of the Strange Man I Met, and of Eli's Story of a Buried Treasure

CHAPTER XVIII

How I Left Bedruthen Steps and, after Meeting Tamsin Truscott, Sought for Naomi

CHAPTER XIX

Tells how I Climbed the Wall of the Manor House Garden, and what I Saw

CHAPTER XX

How I Felled a Horse with my Fist, and Carried Naomi Southward