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Title: A Virginia Scout

Author: Hugh Pendexter

Illustrator: D. C. Hutchison

Release Date: September 16, 2008 [EBook #26631]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "You were never meant for the frontier."]

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A VIRGINIA SCOUT

By
HUGH PENDEXTER

Author of
Kings of the Missouri, Etc.

Frontispiece by
D. C. Hutchison

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright 1920
The Ridgway Company

Copyright 1922
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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To
Faunce Pendexter

My Son and Best of Seven-Year-Old Scouts
This Story Is Lovingly Dedicated

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Three Travelers 1
II Indian-Haters 23
III Over the Mountains 55
IV I Report to My Superiors 81
V Love Comes a Cropper 106
VI The Pack-Horse-Man's Medicine 133
VII Lost Sister 167
VIII In Abb's Valley 193
IX Dale Escapes 229
X Our Medicine Grows Stronger 265
XI Back to the Blue Wall 289
XII The Shadows Vanish 311
XIII Peace Comes to the Clearing 352

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A Virginia Scout

CHAPTER I

THREE TRAVELERS

It was good to rest in the seclusion of my hollow sycamore. It was
pleasant to know that in the early morning my horse would soon cover the
four miles separating me from the so