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KIDNAPPED By Robert Louis Stevenson


Illustrated by Louis Rhead





BEING
MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF
DAVID BALFOUR
IN THE YEAR 1751
HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN
A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS;
HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART
AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES;
WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE
HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER
BALFOUR OF SHAWS, FALSELY
SO CALLED

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON





PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION

DEDICATION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII  

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END

I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE

I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY

WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY

I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART

THE ROUND-HOUSE

THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD

THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE

THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER

I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX”

THE LOSS OF THE BRIG

THE ISLET

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN

THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX

TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE

THE HOUSE OF FEAR

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR

CLUNY’S CAGE

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER

THE QUARREL IN BALQUHIDDER

END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH

I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR

I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE

I COME INTO MY KINGDOM

GOOD-BYE











PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION

While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henley’s enthusiasm swept him off his feet. However, after several plays had been finished, and his health seriously impaired by his endeavours to keep up with Mr. Henley, play writing was abandoned forever, and my husband returned to his legitimate vocation. Having added one of the titles, The Hanging Judge, to the list of projected plays, now thrown aside, and emboldened by my husband’s offer to give me any help needed, I concluded to try and write it myself.

As I wanted a trial scene in the Old Bailey, I chose the period of 1700 for my purpose; but being shamefully ignorant of my subject, and my husband confessing to little more knowledge than I possessed, a London bookseller was commissioned to send us everything he could procure bearing on Old Bailey trials. A great package came in response to our order, and very soon we were both absorbed, not so much in the trials as in following the brilliant career of a Mr. Garrow, who appeared as counsel in many of the cases. We sent for more books, and yet more, still intent on Mr. Garrow, whose subtle cross-examination of witnesses and masterly, if sometimes startling, methods of arriving at the truth seemed more thrilling to us than any novel.

Occasionally other trials than those of the Old Bailey would be included

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