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]