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 PEGGY OWEN
 AND LIBERTY

 _BY_ LUCY
 FOSTER
 MADISON

 AUTHOR OF

 "PEGGY OWEN"

 "PEGGY OWEN,
 PATRIOT"

 "PEGGY OWEN
 AT YORKTOWN"

 ETC.

 ILLUSTRATED BY
 H. J. PECK

 The Penn Publishing Company
 PHILADELPHIA  MCMXIII




 COPYRIGHT
 1912 BY
 THE PENN
 PUBLISHING
 COMPANY




[Illustration: "WHY, IT'S FATHER!"]




 "The motto of our father-band
  Circled the world in its embrace:
  'Twas Liberty throughout the land,
  And good to all their brother race.
  Long here--within the pilgrim's bell
  Had lingered--though it often pealed--
  Those treasured tones, that eke should tell
  Where freedom's proudest scroll was sealed!
  Here the dawn of reason broke
  On the trampled rights of man;
  And a moral era woke
  Brightest since the world began."




Introduction


In "Peggy Owen," the first book of this series, is related the story
of a little Quaker maid who lived across from the State House in
Philadelphia, and who, neutral at first on account of her religion,
became at length an active patriot. The vicissitudes and annoyances to
which she and her mother are subjected by one William Owen, an officer
in the English army and a kinsman of her father's, are also given.

"Peggy Owen, Patriot" tells of Peggy's winter at Middlebrook, in
northern New Jersey, where Washington's army is camped, her capture by
the British and enforced journey to the Carolinas, and final return
home.

"Peggy Owen at Yorktown" details how Peggy goes to Virginia to nurse a
cousin, who is wounded and a prisoner. The town is captured by the
British under Benedict Arnold, the traitor, and Peggy is led to
believe that he has induced the desertion of her friend, John
Drayton. Drayton's rescue from execution as a spy and the siege of
Yorktown follow.

In the present volume Peggy's friends rally about her when her Cousin
Clifford is in danger of capture. The exciting events of the story
show the unsettled state of the country after the surrender of
Cornwallis.




Contents


      I. A SMALL DINNER BECOMES A PARTY             11

     II. PEGGY IS SURPRISED                         26

    III. ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA                  40

     IV. THE SEARCH                                 53

      V. FRIENDS IN NEED                            69

     VI. APPEARANCES AGAINST HER                    81

    VII. DAVID OWEN IS INFORMED OF THE FACTS        94

   VIII. BEFORE THE COUNCIL                        108

     IX. OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE       120

      X. A RACE FOR LIFE                           134

     XI. THE CHOICE OF FAIRFAX                     144

    XII. "THEY MUST GO HOME"                       163

   XIII. A WOMAN'S WIT                             176

    XIV. MARCHING ORDERS                           194

     XV. THE ATTACK ON THE BLOCKHOUSE              215

    XVI. "OF WHAT WAS HE GUILTY?"                  227

   XVII. A GLIMPSE OF HOME                         244

  XVIII. HEROD OUT HERODED                         256

    XIX. THE TURN OF THE WHEEL                     272

     XX. A SLIGHT EMPHASIS OF "THAT"               285

    XXI. CHOSEN BY LOT                             303

   XXII. WHAT CAN BE DONE?                         318

  XXIII. A LITTLE HUMOR DESPITE A GRIM SITUATION   334

   XXIV. "THEE MAY TELL HIM AT THE LAST"           348

    XXV. AT HEADQUARTERS                           363

   XXVI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GLEN                 376

  XXVII. THE SAFEGUARD OF HIS HONOR                392

 XXVIII. "HOW COULD SHE KNOW?"                     407

   XXIX. IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH                    424

    XXX. AND THEN THE END                          437




Illustrations


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