In this story both the love and the faith of one of earth's noblest souls is simply and intimately told.

In an age when the cynical opinion is too often heard, that between men and women there can be no different or more lasting love than the mating instinct of animals, and at a time when the death of millions of the world's best men has brought into fresh insistence the age-long question, "If a man die shall he live again?" a fresh and different setting forth of Abraham Lincoln's master passion for a woman, and his calm and unshakable faith in immortality, may be of more than usual interest and value.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[I.]One April Day[11]
[II.]In Clary's Grove[23]
[III.]The Railsplitter[33]
[IV.]The Pilgrim[40]
[V.]Swapping Hosses[50]
[VI.]"Fixin' fer the Angels"[60]
[VII.]"Sic 'em, Kitty"[66]
[VIII.]The Test[73]
[IX.]"Thou Shalt not Covet"[83]
[X.]The Mysterious Pig[92]
[XI.]Peter Cartwright Arrives[101]
[XII.]The Righteous Shout[113]
[XIII.]A Busy Sinner[124]
[XIV.]The Spelling Match[134]
[XV.]"Who's Afraid?"[146]
[XVI.]Politics and Steamboats[157]
[XVII.]Captain Lincoln[163]
[XVIII.]"Books Beat Guns, Sonny"[171]
[XIX.]Abe Makes a Speech[175]
[XX.]Story of a Boy[180]
[XXI.]Only Wasting Time[189]
[XXII.]Town Topics[202]
[XXIII.]Alias McNeil[211]
[XXIV.]In the Cellar[221]
[XXV.]Father and Daughter[227]
[XXVI.]Gloom and the Light[232]
[XXVII.]Covering the Coals[245]
[XXVIII.]"He's Ruint Hisself Forever"[256]
[XXIX.]God's Little Girl[263]
[XXX.]The End of June[271]
[XXXI.]Stronger Than Death[277]
[XXXII.]The Unfinished Song[286]
[XXXIII.]"Where is Abe Lincoln?"[294]
[XXXIV.]For the Things That Are to be[305]
[XXXV.]The Poem[310]
[XXXVI.]On the Way[321]

THE SOUL OF ANN RUTLEDGE

[CHAPTER I]

ONE APRIL DAY

"Ann! Ann! Ann Rutledge! Hallo! Hallo!"

The cheerful voice belonged to a rosy-cheeked girl who shouted in front of Rutledge Inn, one of the straggling group of log houses that made the village of New Salem, Illinois, in 1831.