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  "I'LL UNLOCK IT BIMEBY--MAYBE." (_See page 91._)]

  THE DESERTER

  AND OTHER STORIES

  _A Book of Two Wars_

  BY

  HAROLD FREDERIC

  AUTHOR OF "IN THE VALLEY," "SETH'S BROTHER'S WIFE,""THE COPPERHEAD," ETC.

  _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_

  MERRILL, SANDHAM, GILBERT GAUL AND GEORGE FOSTER BARNES

  BOSTONLOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY

  COPYRIGHT, 1898,BYLOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY.

  _All rights reserved._

  Norwood PressJ. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & SmithNorwood Mass. U.S.A.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER PAGE

  THE DESERTER.

  I. DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN 3

  II. A SUDDEN DEPARTURE 20

  III. FATHER AND SON 42

  IV. THE "MEANEST WORD" 60

  V. THE DEPUTY MARSHAL 80

  VI. A HOME IN THE WOODS 98

  VII. ANOTHER CHASE AFTER MOSE 117

  A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS.

  I. THE VALLEY OF DEATH 139

  II. LAFE RECONNOITRES THE VALLEY 157

  III. THE BOUNTY-JUMPER 177

  IV. RED PETE IN CAPTIVITY 198

  V. LAFE RESCUES AN OFFICER, AND FINDS HIS COUSIN 216

  HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME.

  I. THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER 239

  II. A BURST FOR FREEDOM 260

  III. A STRANGE CHRISTMAS EVE 279

  IV. UP IN THE WORLD 299

  WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS.

  I. HUGH THE WRITER 319

  II. SIR HEREWARD'S RING 350

  III. HOW HUGH MET THE PRINCE 381

  ILLUSTRATIONS.

  "'I'LL UNLOCK IT BIMEBY--MAYBE'" _Frontispiece_

  PAGE

  "'SH-H! TALK LOWER!'" 27

  "'GIMME THAT GUN!'" 61

  "'DROP IT--YOU!'" 175

  LAFE AND THE BOUNTY-JUMPER 195

  "'I'M STEVE HORNBECK'S SON!'" 231

  "SIR WATTY CAME STALKING DOWN" 249

  "'WHOSE BLOOD IS THIS?'" 285

  "HE ADVANCED AND KISSED THE LADY'S HAND" 357

  "TWO DOZEN PIKE-HEADS CLASHED DOWN AS BY A SINGLE TOUCH" 385

  THE DESERTER.