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KIDNAPPED
 

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON  ILLUSTRATED By N. C. WYETH  NEW YORK  CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

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KIDNAPPED

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 AC-
QUAINTANCEWITH 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

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1946

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Copyright, 1905, 1913, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced in any form without
the permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons

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D E D I C A T I O N

My Dear Charles Baxter:

If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questionsthan I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder hascome to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so nearto Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as to all that touchesDavid Balfour. These are nuts beyond my ability to crack. But if youtried me on the point of Alan’s guilt or innocence, I think I coulddefend the reading of the text. To this day you will find the traditionof Appin clear in Alan’s favour. If you inquire, you may even hear thatthe descendants of “the other man” who fired the shot are in the countryto this day. But that other man’s name, inquire as you please, you shallnot hear; for the Highlander values a secret for itself and for thecongenia

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