The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars

The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars
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Frederic Harold. The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars

THE DESERTER

CHAPTER I. DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN

CHAPTER II. A SUDDEN DEPARTURE

CHAPTER III. FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER IV. THE "MEANEST WORD."

CHAPTER V. THE DEPUTY MARSHAL

CHAPTER VI. A HOME IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER VII. ANOTHER CHASE AFTER MOSE

A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF DEATH

CHAPTER II. LAFE RECONNOITRES THE VALLEY

CHAPTER III. THE BOUNTY-JUMPER

CHAPTER IV. RED PETE IN CAPTIVITY

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

HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME

CHAPTER I. THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER

CHAPTER II. A BURST FOR FREEDOM

CHAPTER III. A STRANGE CHRISTMAS EVE

CHAPTER IV. UP IN THE WORLD

WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS

CHAPTER I. HUGH THE WRITER

CHAPTER II. SIR HEREWARD'S RING

CHAPTER III. HOW HUGH MET THE PRINCE

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It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold.

Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morning he had ever known. It would be bad enough when daylight came, but the darkness of this early hour made it almost too much for flesh and blood to bear. There had been a stray star or two visible overhead when he first came out-of-doors at half-past four, but even these were missing now.

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Job had gone over to the lamp, during the progress of this talk, and scrutinized the ring. Surely enough, the clumsily scratched initials on the little silver plate, obviously cut down from an old three-cent piece, were an M and a W.

This made it all the more difficult to puzzle out how the ring came in the barrel. The lad turned the problem over in his mind with increasing bewilderment.

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