



Produced by Dennis Hyer






                             KATE AYLESFORD

                         A STORY OF THE REFUGEES



                         BY CHARLES J. PETERSON




                  “Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
                  Who never to himself hath said
                  This is my own, my native land.”
                  —Lay of the Last Minstrel.





                              Philadelphia:
               T. B. PETERSON, NO. 102 CHESTNUT STREET.
                    BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
                          NEW YORK: J. C. DERBY.



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       Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
                          A. H. SIMMONS & CO.,
    In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
             in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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                                 CONTENTS

I. THE NIGHT AT SEA

II. KATE AYLESFORD

III. THE SHIPWRECK

IV. MORNING

V. THE COUNTRY TAVERN

VI. MAJOR GORDON

VII. THE ABORTIVE ATTEMPT

VIII. THE RESCUE

IX. SWEETWATER

X. ARAB

XI. THE RIDE

XII. UNCLE LAWRENCE

XIII. KATE

XIV. THE MARCH ON TRENTON

XV. THE FIRE IN THE WOODS

XVI. THE MISUNDERSTANDING

XVII. JEALOUSY

XVIII. THE COUNTRY CHURCH

XIX. THE MEETING

XX. THE INTERRUPTION

XXI. AYLESFORD AND MRS. WARREN

XXII. AYLESFORD AND KATE

XXIII. THE REFUGEE'S HUT

XXIV. THE PLOT

XXV. TREACHERY

XXVI. POMP'S ADVENTURE

XXVII. THE