IN THE VALLEY

Harold Frederic

Contents.

Chapter I. ["The French Are in the Valley!"]
Chapter II. [Setting Forth How the Girl Child Was Brought to Us.]
Chapter III. [Master Philip Makes His Bow--And Behaves Badly]
Chapter IV. [In Which I Become the Son of the House.]
Chapter V. [How a Stately Name Was Shortened and Sweetened.]
Chapter VI. [Within Sound of the Shouting Waters.]
Chapter VII. [Through Happy Youth to Man's Estate.]
Chapter VIII. [Enter My Lady Berenicia Cross.]
Chapter IX. [I See My Sweet Sister Dressed in Strange Attire.]
Chapter X. [The Masquerade Brings Me Nothing but Pain.]
Chapter XI. [As I Make My Adieux Mr. Philip Comes In.]
Chapter XII. [Old-Time Politics Pondered under the Starlight.]
Chapter XIII. [To the Far Lake Country and Home Again.]
Chapter XIV. [How I Seem to Feel a Wanting Note in the Chorus of Welcome.]
Chapter XV. [The Rude Awakening from My Dream.]
Chapter XVI. [Tulp Gets a Broken Head to Match My Heart.]
Chapter XVII. [I Perforce Say Farewell to My Old Home.]
Chapter XVIII. [The Fair Beginning of a New Life in Ancient Albany.]
Chapter XIX. [I Go to a Famous Gathering at the Patroon's Manor House.]
Chapter XX. [A Foolish and Vexatious Quarrel Is Thrust upon Me.]
Chapter XXI. [Containing Other News Besides that from Bunker Hill.]
Chapter XXII. [The Master and Mistress of Cairncross.]
Chapter XXIII. [How Philip in Wrath, Daisy in Anguish, Fly Their Home.]
Chapter XXIV. [The Night Attack Upon Quebec--And My Share in It.]
Chapter XXV. [A Crestfallen Return to Albany.]
Chapter XXVI. [I See Daisy and the Old Home Once More.]
Chapter XXVII. [The Arrest of Poor Lady Johnson.]
Chapter XXVIII. [An Old Acquaintance Turns Up in Manacles.]
Chapter XXIX. [The Message Sent Ahead from the Invading Army.]
Chapter XXX. [From the Scythe and Reaper to the Musket.]
Chapter XXXI. [The Rendezvous of Fighting Men at Fort Dayton.]
Chapter XXXII. ["The Blood Be on Your Heads."]
Chapter XXXIII. [The Fearsome Death-Struggle in the Forest.]
Chapter XXXIV. [Alone at Last with My Enemy.]
Chapter XXXV. [The Strange Uses to Which Revenge May Be Put.]
Chapter XXXVI. [A Final Scene in the Gulf which My Eyes Are Mercifully Spared.]
Chapter XXXVII. [The Peaceful Ending of It All.]

THE DESERTER AND OTHER STORIES

BY HAROLD FREDERIC

CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
THE DESERTER.
I. Discoveries in the Barn [3]
II. A Sudden Departure [20]
III. Father and Son [42]
IV. The "Meanest Word" [60]
V. The Deputy Marshal [80]
VI. A Home in the Woods [98]
VII. Another Chase after Mose [117]
A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
I. The Valley of Death [139]
II. Lafe reconnoitres the Valley [157]
III. The Bounty-Jumper [177]
IV. Red Pete in Captivity [198]
V. Lafe rescues an Officer, and finds his Cousin [216]
HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME.
I. The Making of a Soldier [239]
II. A Burst for Freedom [260]
III. A Strange Christmas Eve [279]
IV. Up in the World [299]
WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS.
I. Hugh the Writer [319]
II. Sir Hereward's Ring [350]
III. How Hugh met the Prince [381]