Evelyn Byrd

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Eggleston George Cary. Evelyn Byrd

Preface

I. A STRICKEN CORSAGE

II. OWEN KILGARIFF

III. EVELYN BYRD

IV. THE LETTING DOWN OF THE BARS

V. DOROTHY’S OPINIONS

VI “WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK”

VII. WITH EVELYN AT WYANOKE

VIII. SOME REVELATIONS OF EVELYN

IX. THE GREAT WAR GAME

X. THE LAW OF LOVE

XI. ORDERS AND “NO NONSENSE”

XII. SAFE-CONDUCT OF TWO KINDS

XIII. KILGARIFF HEARS NEWS

XIV. IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT

XV. IN THE TRENCHES

XVI. THE STARVING TIME

XVII. A GUN-PIT CONFERENCE

XVIII. EVELYN’S REVELATION

XIX. DOROTHY’S DECISION

XX. A MAN, A MAID, AND A HORSE

XXI. EVELYN LIFTS A CORNER OF THE CURTAIN

XXII. ALONE IN THE PORCH

XXIII. A LESSON FROM DOROTHY

XXIV. EVELYN’S BOOK

XXV. MORE OF EVELYN’S BOOK

XXVI. EVELYN’S BOOK, CONTINUED

XXVII. KILGARIFF’S PERPLEXITY

XXVIII. EVELYN’S BOOK, CONCLUDED

XXIX. EVELYN’S VIGIL

XXX. BEFORE A HICKORY FIRE

XXXI. THE LAST FLIGHT OF EVELYN

XXXII. THE END OF IT ALL

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A BATTERY of six twelve-pounder Napoleon guns lay in a little skirt of woodland on the south bank of the Rapidan. It was raining, not violently, but with a soaking persistence that might well have made the artillery-men tired of life and ready to welcome whatever end that day’s skirmishing might bring to the weariness of living. But these men were veteran soldiers, inured to hardship as well as to danger. A saturating rain meant next to nothing to them. A day’s discomfort, more or less, counted not at all in the monotonously uncomfortable routine of their lives.

They had been sent into the woodland an hour or two ago, and had done a little desultory firing now and then, merely by way of disturbing the movements of small bodies of the enemy who were being shifted about on the other side of the river.

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“Man’s a strange animal,” sings the poet, and his song is an echo of truth.

Pollard and Kilgariff rode on until the camp was reached. There Kilgariff pushed his horse at once to the tent of the surgeon, and delivered the girl into that officer’s keeping.

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