The present volume shows the Owens at Washington’s camp in northern New Jersey. Peggy’s further adventures are continued in “Peggy Owen at Yorktown” and “Peggy Owen and Liberty.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.On the Road to Philadelphia[11]
II.The Home-Coming[24]
III.An Old Time Advertisement[37]
IV.A Girl’s Sacrifice[48]
V.Up in the Attic[61]
VI.Tea at Headquarters[69]
VII.A Summer Soldier[87]
VIII.Peggy’s Resolve[98]
IX.The Tale of a Hero[107]
X.Peggy Teaches a Lesson[119]
XI.Peggy Pleads for Drayton[129]
XII.Another Chance[141]
XIII.Good News[151]
XIV.The Camp at Middlebrook[159]
XV.Harriet[176]
XVI.The Two Warnings[188]
XVII.A Letter and a Surprise[205]
XVIII.Stolen Thunder[222]
XIX.A Promise and an Accusation[232]
XX.A Regretted Promise[247]
XXI.The Reckoning[258]
XXII.A High-Handed Proceeding[269]
XXIII.In the Lines of the Enemy[281]
XXIV.The Reason Why[291]
XXV.The Alert That Failed[303]
XXVI.The Battle With the Elements[319]
XXVII.A Haven After the Storm[335]
XXVIII.A Taste of Partisan Warfare[346]
XXIX.Peggy Finds an Old Friend[361]
XXX.An Interrupted Journey[376]
XXXI.How the News was Received at Camp[387]
XXXII.On the Altar of His Country[401]
XXXIII.A Great Surprise[419]
XXXIV.Home[429]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Can I be of Any Assistance?”[Frontispiece]
“Friend—I Should Say—General Arnold”[80]
Slowly He Turned Toward the Reader[124]
“My Wife and Daughter, Your Excellency”[169]
“Why Should Thee Play the Spy?”[261]
The Dingey was Caught by a Current[334]
“You Are Welcome,” said General Gates[396]

Peggy Owen, Patriot

CHAPTER I—ON THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA

“And rising Chestnut Hill around surveyed Wide woods below in vast extent displayed.” —“The Forester,” Alexander Wilson.