Copyright, 1901,
By DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
“SHE SWEPT HIM A COURTESY FULL OF OPEN DEFIANCE AND RIDICULE.”
To my Husband
WALKER KENNEDY
This Book Is Dedicated
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Cupid and Mars | [1] |
| II. | The March of the Continentals | [10] |
| III. | Onward to Valley Forge | [20] |
| IV. | The Company on the Veranda | [25] |
| V. | Winding the Skein | [35] |
| VI. | The Fête at Philadelphia | [43] |
| VII. | A Dare-devil Deed | [56] |
| VIII. | A Maid’s Dream and the Devil’s Wooing | [65] |
| IX. | On Monmouth Plain | [73] |
| X. | In Clinton’s Tents | [81] |
| XI. | From Camp to Prison | [93] |
| XII. | A Message out of the North | [104] |
| XIII. | Dreams | [120] |
| XIV. | News of Love and War | [128] |
| XV. | An Awakening and a Mutiny | [141] |
| XVI. | Into the Jaws of Death | [151] |
| XVII. | Out of the Shadow and into the Sun | [163] |
| XVIII. | “Kiss me quick, and let me go” | [181] |
| XIX. | The Wearing of a Red Rose | [192] |
| XX. | Joscelyn’s Peril | [204] |
| XXI. | Trapped | [217] |
| XXII. | “Search my Lady’s Wardrobe” | [227] |
| XXIII. | In Tarleton’s Toils | [242] |
| XXIV. | Thwarted | [263] |
| XXV. | Good-by, Sweetheart | [278] |
| XXVI. | By the Beleaguered City | [293] |
| XXVII. | Homecomings | [305] |
| XXVIII. | An Unanswered Question | [320] |
| XXIX. | The End of the Thread | [331] |