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I.In which there are Several Introductions,[1]
II.In which Two Strangers Visit Red Rock andare Invited to Come Again,[11]
III.The Visitors start South again, and their FormerHosts go to Meet Them,[33]
IV.In which a Long Jump is Taken,[49]
V.Dr. Cary Returns from the War, and Takes anInventory of Stock,[56]
VI.A Broken Soldier Comes Home from War,[63]
VII.The Cary Conference,[78]
VIII.Mr. Hiram Still Tells how to Bridle a ShyHorse, and Captain Allen lays down His Hoe,[86]
IX.Mr. Jonadab Leech turns up with a Carpet-bagand Opens His Bureau,[96]
X.The Provost Makes His First Move,[107]
XI.The Provost Catches a Tartar, and Captain MiddletonSeeks the Consolations of Religion,[118]
XII.Captain Allen takes the Oath of Allegianceand Jacquelin Gray loses His Buttons andsome Old Papers,[139]
XIII.Steve Allen learns Miss Thomasia’s Secretand Forswears Cards,[155]
XIV.Leech Secures an Order and Loses it,[162]
XV.Captain Middleton has a Test of Peace, andis Ordered West,[175]
XVI.The New Troop Meets the Enemy,[186]
XVII.Jacquelin Gray goes on a Long Voyage andRed Rock passes out of His Hands,[195]
XVIII.Leech as a Statesman and Dr. Cary as a Collectorof Bills,[207]
XIX.Hiram Still Collects His Debts,[216]
XX.Leech looks Higher and gets a Fall,[228]
XXI.Dr. Cary meets an Old College Mate andlearns that the Athenians also practiseHospitality,[241]
XXII.Jacquelin Gray comes Home and Claims aGraveyard,[252]
XXIII.Two New Residents come to the County,[264]
XXIV.The Travellers are Entertained in a Farmhouse,[280]
XXV.The Trick-Doctor,[289]
XXVI.Major Welch and Ruth Become Residents,[294]
XXVII.Hiram Still gets a Legal Opinion and CaptainAllen Climbs for Cherries,[301]
XXVIII.Mrs. Welch Arrives and gives Her first Lessonin Enterprise,[320]
XXIX.Mrs. Welch Enters the Harvest,[330]
XXX.Some of the Grain Mrs. Welch Reaped,[347]
XXXI.Jacquelin Gray Learns that He is a Fool,and Steve Astonishes Major Welch,[365]
XXXII.A Cut Direct and a Rejected Address,[385]
XXXIII.Blair Cary Saves a Rival School,[398]
XXXIV.Leech and Still make a Move, and twoWomen Check them,[410]
XXXV.Captain Allen finds Rupert and Breaks theLaw,[422]
XXXVI.Mr. Still Offers a Compromise, and a Bluff,[436]
XXXVII.In which it is Shown that, in a Trial, Counselmay ask one Question too many,[455]
XXXVIII.In which Mr. Leech Springs a Trap withmuch Success,[472]
XXXIX.Captain Allen claims the Reward LeechOffered,[500]
XL.Jacquelin Gray and Andy Stamper pay anOld Debt,[512]
XLI.Dr. Cary Writes a Letter to an Old Friend,[521]
XLII.Captain Allen Surrenders,[528]
XLIII.Miss Welch Hears a Piece of News,[538]
XLIV.Middleton Revisits Red Rock, and an OldSoldier lays down His Arms,[544]
XLV.Captain Allen has an Unexpected Visitor,[559]
XLVI.The Old Lawyer Declines to Surprise theCourt, and Surprises Leech,[572]
XLVII.Some of the Threads are Tied,[579]

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SHE GAVE HIM A ROLLING-PIN AND HE SET TO WORK,[Frontispiece]
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AMONG THE COMPANY THAT NIGHT THERE WERE TWO GUESTS WHO “HAPPENED IN” QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY,[14]
THE GIRLS OF THE PLACE TURNED ASIDE, WHENEVER THEY MET THEM, AND PASSED BY WITH THEIR HEADS HELD HIGH,[96]
HE CARRIED OFF IN TRIUMPH A PAIR OF OLD HORSE-PISTOLS,[124]
KU KLUX—“AWFUL FORMS WRAPPED LIKE GHOSTS IN WINDING-SHEETS,”[238]
BEFORE HIM STOOD, TALL AND GRAY, THE INDIAN-KILLER,[262]
“I COULDN’T LET YOU BE RUN AWAY WITH AGAIN UNDER MY VERY EYES,” HE SAID,[328]
STEVE STRETCHED, AND, PICKING UP HIS BOOK, DIVED ONCE MORE INTO THE “IDYLLS OF THE KING,”[376]
SHE GAVE A STEP FORWARD AND WITH A QUICK MOVEMENT PULLED THE MASK FROM HIS FACE,[406]
STILL SPRUNG TO HIS FEET IN UNCONTROLLABLE AGITATION, HIS FACE LIVID,[464]
AND THERE, IN THE LITTLE PARLOR, STEVE AND RUTH WERE MARRIED,[570]

RED ROCK

CHAPTER I

IN WHICH THERE ARE SEVERAL INTRODUCTIONS