Contents

I. Tells How Mr. Tobias Hawkins Made the Acquaintance of Mr. Samuel Livingstone[ 9]
II. In Which Mr. Hawkins Utters a Threat[ 22]
III. Shows How Ben Cooper Started Upon a Mission in the Early Dawn[ 46]
IV. How Good News Came to Trenton[ 65]
V. In Which an Army Crept Away in the Night and Fought the Battle of Princeton[ 78]
VI. Tells How Ben Cooper Encountered the Man With the Yellow Smile[ 95]
VII. In Which the Hostler Sees Two Shadows in the Road[ 110]
VIII. Shows How Ben Cooper Went Forth Into the Night and What Discovery He Made by the Wayside [ 124]
IX. Deals With the Arrival of Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette[ 140]
X. Shows How the Fight at Brandywine Was Lost, and How Ben Bore the Tidings to Philadelphia[ 159]
XI. Tells How Ben Cooper Listened to Some Astonishing Revelations[ 177]
XII. How Storm-Stayed Guests Came to the Inn at Rising Sun[ 191]
XIII. Shows the Bargain That Was Struck by Tobias Hawkins and His Friend[ 209]
XIV. How Ben and Paddy Burk Made Away From the House of Danger[ 223]
XV. Tells of Much Fighting, and Also How Johnson Quinsey Made His Appearance[ 231]
XVI. In Which Ben Meets a Stranger and Hears of the Inn With the Green Light[ 251]
XVII. How Ben and His Friend Paused at “The Crossed Keys”[ 267]
XVIII. Shows How Molly Hayes and a Kettle of Scalding Water Play Their Parts[ 278]
XIX. In Which Ben Receives a Letter and Rides Toward York[ 293]
XX. Tells How Lafayette Astonished General Gates[ 308]
XXI. In Which the Battle of Monmouth is Lost and Won[ 321]