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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