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THE DESERTER

AND OTHER STORIES


_A Book of Two Wars_


BY

HAROLD FREDERIC


AUTHOR OF "IN THE VALLEY," "SETH'S BROTHER'S WIFE,"
"THE COPPERHEAD," ETC.


_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_

MERRILL, SANDHAM, GILBERT GAUL AND GEORGE FOSTER BARNES


BOSTON
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1898,
BY
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY.


_All rights reserved._

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER                                                          PAGE

THE DESERTER.

  I. DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN                                        3

 II. A SUDDEN DEPARTURE                                            20

III. FATHER AND SON                                                42

 IV. THE "MEANEST WORD"                                            60

  V. THE DEPUTY MARSHAL                                            80

 VI. A HOME IN THE WOODS                                           98

VII. ANOTHER CHASE AFTER MOSE                                     117


A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS.

  I. THE VALLEY OF DEATH                                          139

 II. LAFE RECONNOITRES THE VALLEY                                 157

III. THE BOUNTY-JUMPER                                            177

 IV. RED PETE IN CAPTIVITY                                        198

 