CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Three Travelers | [1] |
| II | Indian-Haters | [23] |
| III | Over the Mountains | [55] |
| IV | I Report to My Superiors | [81] |
| V | Love Comes a Cropper | [106] |
| VI | The Pack-Horse-Man’s Medicine | [133] |
| VII | Lost Sister | [167] |
| VIII | In Abb’s Valley | [193] |
| IX | Dale Escapes | [229] |
| X | Our Medicine Grows Stronger | [265] |
| XI | Back to the Blue Wall | [289] |
| XII | The Shadows Vanish | [311] |
| XIII | Peace Comes to the Clearing | [352] |
A Virginia Scout
CHAPTER I
THREE TRAVELERS
It was good to rest in the seclusion of my hollow sycamore. It was pleasant to know that in the early morning my horse would soon cover the four miles separating me from the soil of Virginia. As a surveyor, and now as a messenger between Fort Pitt and His Lordship, the Earl of Dunmore, our royal governor, I had utilized this unique shelter more than once when breaking my journey at the junction of the Monongahela and the Cheat.