Copyright, 1892,
By T. Y. Crowell & Co.


This Volume is Reverently Inscribed to the Memory

OF

Colonel OTIS BISBEE,

Who, in his lifetime, was Principal of the Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and under whose guidance and instruction, long ago, two happy years were spent

By the Author.


[CONTENTS.]

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[A Loss of Temper]7
II.[Changing the Record]28
III.[An Impertinent Petition]49
IV.[The Order of the Black Star]70
V.[A Hapless Holiday]89
VI.[Quartered on a Haymow]109
VII.[The Return of the Fugitives]128
VIII.[A General Amnesty]148