TO
D. W.
PREFATORY NOTE
Lest a principal incident in this little tale should seem incredible, it may be mentioned that an instance of a child being deprived of speech for several days, at the bidding of a reputed witch, came under the author's immediate notice less than three years ago, in a village but three miles distant from his own home.
It may be added that the military details in Chapter XIII. are all drawn from authentic sources, mainly from the Recollections of Rifleman Harris and the History of the Fifty-Second Regiment.
CASTLE HILL,
28th August, 1899.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| [CHAPTER I] | [CHAPTER VIII] |
| [CHAPTER II] | [CHAPTER IX] |
| [CHAPTER III] | [CHAPTER X] |
| [CHAPTER IV] | [CHAPTER XI] |
| [CHAPTER V] | [CHAPTER XII] |
| [CHAPTER VI] | [CHAPTER XIII] |
| [CHAPTER VII] | [CHAPTER XIV] |