CHAPTER II. IN WHICH PHIL FINDS THE CAMP OF THE INDIANS. 21
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH PHIL TAKES GOOD CARE OF THE HORSES. 32
CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH PHIL LOSES AN OLD AND VALUED FRIEND. 42
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH PHIL FOLLOWS KIT CRUNCHER. 53
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH PHIL ASSISTS IN THE BUILDING OF A BLOCK HOUSE. 63
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH PHIL AND HIS FRIENDS GUARD THE CASTLE. 74
CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH PHIL SEES THE FIRST YOUNG LADY HE EVER SAW. 85
CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH PHIL HAS A VISITOR AT THE CASTLE. 95
CHAPTER X. IN WHICH PHIL VISITS PARADISE, AND FIRES AT AN INDIAN. 106
CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH PHIL ENGAGES IN THE PURSUIT OF THE INDIANS. 116
CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH PHIL TAKES DELIBERATE AIM AT ONE OF THE CAPTORS OF ELLA. 127
CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH PHIL AND HIS COMPANION ARRIVE AT THE CABIN OF KIT CRUNCHER. 138
CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH PHIL ROWS THE BARGE UP THE BIG FISH RIVER. 149
CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH PHIL AND HIS COMPANIONS START FOR THE CASTLE. 160
CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH PHIL ARRIVES AT THE CASTLE. 171
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH PHIL CONDUCTS THE SOLDIERS TO THE LINE OF DEFENCE. 182
CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH PHIL FIGHTS THE INDIANS ON THE ISLAND. 193
CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH PHIL CONDUCTS THE RAFT TO THE LANDING, AND MORGAN FIRES THE BIG GUN. 204
CHAPTER XX. IN WHICH PHIL WITNESSES THE OPENING OF THE BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS. 215
CHAPTER XXI. IN WHICH PHIL SEES THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR. 226
CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH PHIL UNDERTAKES A HEAVY JOB. 236
CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH PHIL'S RECONSTRUCTION PLAN IS FULLY SET FORTH. 247
CHAPTER XXIV. IN WHICH PHIL AND HIS FRIENDS EXAMINE THE CONTENTS OF THE CHEST. 257
CHAPTER XXV. IN WHICH PHIL ATTENDS TO THE AFFAIRS OF THE FARM. 268
CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH PHIL, WITH HIS FORTUNE AS A FARMER, BIDS FAREWELL TO FIELD AND FOREST. 278
IN WHICH PHIL COMES HOME WITH PLENTY OF FISH.
That was the name to which I answered, especially when it was spoken as decidedly as on the present occasion.
"I'm coming," I replied, at the top of my lungs.
I had been a-fishing in a stream which flowed into the Missouri about a mile above my home. I had been very successful, and had as many fish as I could carry. I was gathering them up, after I had fastened my bateau to the stake, and intended to convey them to the Castle, as our log hut was rather facetiously called by its owner.