Project Gutenberg 2012-10-21 Public domain in the USA. 66 Roberts, Theodore Goodridge 1877 1953 Roberts, T. G. (Theodore Goodridge) Goodridge Roberts, Theodore Roberts, George Edward Theodore Roberts, G. E. Theodore (George Edward Theodore) Goss, John 1886 1963 Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery D Alexander, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery" by Theodore Goodridge Roberts is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the peculiar happenings in the settlement of Samson's Mill after the arrival of Reginald Baynes Rayton. During a friendly poker game, a marked card bears two unsettling red crosses, causing distress among the players and encapsulating the community in an atmosphere punctuated by superstition and suspicion. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to Rayton and several residents of the settlement engaged in a poker game. When young David Marsh receives a card marked with red crosses, Jim Harley's curious behavior raises doubts among the players. Harley's agitation leads him to counsel Marsh to stay away from his sister, Nell, igniting a rivalry. Afterward, David faces a more immediate crisis as he suffers a canoe accident in the Teakettle River, which leaves him with a broken arm, intensifying the anxiety surrounding the card's supernatural implications and intertwining the lives of the characters with themes of love, rivalry, and hidden motivations in this rural setting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41122/41122-h/images/cover.jpg en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 386460 386366 2024-09-17T09:55:39.795518 2023-09-18T05:05:06.639874 text/html text/html 392391 2021-04-16T17:07:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1177666 2021-04-16T17:11:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1276774 2024-09-17T09:55:45.546703 application/epub+zip 1282675 2024-09-17T09:55:40.654536 application/epub+zip 204872 2024-09-17T09:55:40.209502 application/epub+zip 1412860 2024-09-17T09:55:49.500480 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1383624 2024-09-17T09:55:45.124507 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306711 2022-09-18T18:52:57.571481 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362798 2024-09-17T09:55:38.792512 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 362749 2021-04-16T17:10:24 text/plain; charset=utf-8 137783 2021-04-16T17:10:53 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18235 2024-09-17T09:55:49.654455 application/rdf+xml 16997 2024-09-17T09:55:40.306504 image/jpeg 3124 2024-09-17T09:55:40.258502 image/jpeg 1178099 2024-09-17T09:55:39.855543 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia