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BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Author of “The Fighter,” “Caleb Conover,” “The Woman,” etc. FRONTISPIECE BY W. D. GOLDBECK
New York W. J. WATT & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1914 by W. J. WATT & COMPANY PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO “The Sunnybank People” THIS STORY IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED






ACROSS the plaza, under the white sun-glare, marched and countermarched the crack regiment’s bronzed men in their heavy high caps and the rest of the odd regimentals of the late Forties.
From walls and roofs hung a myriad of more or less soiled American flags. On the plaza band stand a group of Mexican musicians were wrestling with “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.”