Maria Thompson Daviess

Author of “The Melting of Molly,” “Miss Selina Lue,” “Over Paradise Ridge, etc.”

Frontispiece from Painting by

E. Sophonisba Hergesheimer

1916

To
Jessie Morson Grahame
Who expects “the best” of me

[Contents]

  1. [Sparkling Waves Over High Explosives]
  2. [Vive la France!]
  3. [That Mr. G. Slade of Detroit]
  4. [The Impossible Uncle Robert]
  5. [“Here’s My Boy, Governor”]
  6. [“We Both Need You”]
  7. [The Girl Bunch]
  8. [In the Dress of Magnificence]
  9. [“O’er the Land of the Free—”]
  10. [Vitriol and the Hoodoo]
  11. [Business and Pie]
  12. [The Beautiful Madam Whitworth]
  13. [Brothers by Bloodshed]
  14. [To Bear Men and to Save Them]
  15. [“Behold, I Am a Spy!”]
  16. [“Immediately I Come to You!”]
  17. [The Tall Timbers of Old Harpeth]
  18. [The Camp Heaven]
  19. [All is Lost]
  20. [“You Are—Myself!”]