Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

F. A. P.

"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,

Never doubted clouds would break,

Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,

Sleep to wake."

Chapter		Page
I	Friedrich Von Rittenheim	[ 7]
II	The Snare of the Fowler	[ 22]
III	A Weak Man's Strength	[ 38]
IV	"Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife"	[ 47]
V	A Strong Man's Weakness	[ 61]
VI	"I Warrant There's Vinegar and Pepper In't!"	[ 74]
VII	In the Southern Appalachians	[ 85]
VIII	Sydney Rides Against Time	[ 105]
IX	"It Needed Only This!"	[ 118]
X	Through the Mist	[ 132]
XI	In the Corn	[ 146]
XII	Illumination	[ 156]
XIII	Reconciliation	[ 171]
XIV	The Fourth of July	[ 179]
XV	The Gander-Pulling	[ 193]
XVI	On the Bridge	[ 202]
XVII	Out of a Clear Sky	[ 216]
XVIII	Business Plans	[ 230]
XIX	Hilda	[ 242]
XX	Sacrifice	[ 255]
XXI	A Poke Party	[ 267]
XXII	Von Rittenheim Collects His Rent	[ 285]
XXIII	The 'possum-hunt	[ 299]
XXIV	"Fought the Fight"	[ 312]
XXV	Carl Von Sternburg	[ 322]
XXVI	Surrender	[ 335]
XXVII	Dixie	[ 348]

	Page
Oakwood	[ Frontispiece]
A fence at the top of a sharp ascent	[ 109]
To the French Broad, where Fletcher's Bridge crosses the river	[ 204]
Pink roses and red swung to and fro in the sunshine as they climbed the Doctor's whitewashed porch	[ 242]
"It is not fitting that a von Rittenheim should live in a cabin like that"	[ 269]