“You were never meant for the frontier.”


A Virginia Scout

By

HUGH PENDEXTER

Author of

Kings of the Missouri, Etc.

Frontispiece by

D. C. Hutchison

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS


Copyright 1920

The Ridgway Company

Copyright 1922

The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF

BRAUNWORTH & CO.

BOOK MANUFACTURERS

BROOKLYN, N. Y.


To

Faunce Pendexter

My Son and Best of Seven-Year-Old Scouts

This Story Is Lovingly Dedicated


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Three Travelers [1]
IIIndian-Haters [23]
IIIOver the Mountains [55]
IVI Report to My Superiors [81]
VLove Comes a Cropper [106]
VIThe Pack-Horse-Man’s Medicine [133]
VIILost Sister [167]
VIIIIn Abb’s Valley [193]
IXDale Escapes [229]
XOur Medicine Grows Stronger [265]
XIBack to the Blue Wall [289]
XIIThe Shadows Vanish [311]
XIIIPeace Comes to the Clearing [352]

A Virginia Scout