![]() ![]() Later, Hoseason offers to take them both on a jaunt in his ship, and they agree, but soon after they set out David notices his uncle has escaped on a skiff, and is headed towards the shore. Ebenezer and David both go to the pier, but David leaves his Uncle alone with the captain. A cabin boy from a ship arrives at the house the next day, telling Ebenezer that Captain Hoseason needs to speak with him. David returns to confront his Uncle, who finally agrees to tell him the whole story about his father in the morning. David is forced to climb the stairs in darkness, nearly falling before he sees the staircase end abruptly, and suspects his Uncle of foul play. ![]() Ebenezer tells David to retrieve a chest from the top of a tower. David’s father has just died, and David has come to find out if his father was actually the elder brother, thereby making him the heir to the House of Shaws. His paranoid and thrifty Uncle Ebenezer lives there, surviving on small ale and parritch. David Balfour arrives at the House of Shaws, an unfinished ruin of a house. It is a fictional account of real-life historical events that took place in 18th Century Scotland, including the Appin murder, which was committed just after the 1745 Jacobite rising. A sequel, called Catriona, was published in 1893. ![]() Kidnapped is an historical-adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. ![]()
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