Project Gutenberg 2005-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 102 De Mille, James 1833 1880 Mille, James de DeMille, James Anonymous Christian Christian, Anonymous Cord and Creese Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. Text file produced by David Moynihan, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "Cord and Creese" by James De Mille is a novel likely written during the late 19th century. The narrative begins with the arrival of a letter from England to a man named Louis Brandon in Sydney, Australia, triggering a series of events tied to family tragedy, adventure, and intrigue. The story hints at themes of revenge and discovery as Brandon grapples with his father's distressing letter and the revelation that sets him on a path to confront a dark past. At the start of the book, the arrival of the English mail on a ship stirs excitement among the townsfolk in Sydney. Brandon, a junior partner in a commission business, receives a letter from his estranged father, which brings shocking news about family misfortunes and the betrayal of a man named Potts, who has caused their downfall. The letter reveals the father's desperation, urging his son to return home to help their family and seek vengeance. Following this life-changing revelation, Brandon resolves to leave his promising life in Australia, setting the stage for a compelling adventure filled with mystery and the pursuit of justice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure stories Mystery fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 1170352 1170353 2024-10-04T07:58:58.619025 2023-10-04T07:34:41.281217 text/html text/html 1232034 2021-02-26T00:10:19 text/html; charset=utf-8 387827 2021-02-26T00:10:24 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 461259 2024-10-04T07:59:12.959926 application/epub+zip 482599 2024-10-04T07:59:01.380038 application/epub+zip 482599 2024-10-04T07:58:59.735031 application/epub+zip 835485 2024-10-04T07:59:21.871877 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 766029 2024-10-04T07:59:11.840976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 741748 2022-09-04T11:05:45.567395 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 970127 969971 2024-10-04T07:58:54.016044 2023-10-04T07:34:37.299189 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 988299 2016-11-15T11:30:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 366293 2016-11-15T11:33:18 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 969883 2013-06-03T08:02:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 364049 2013-06-03T08:02:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 969885 2013-06-03T08:01:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 363995 2013-06-03T08:02:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23334 2024-10-04T07:59:22.011900 application/rdf+xml 12508 2024-10-04T07:59:00.346990 image/jpeg 3196 2024-10-04T07:59:00.028989 image/jpeg 445503 2024-10-04T07:58:58.711014 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