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Title: The Lost Despatch
Author: Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24204]
Language: English
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THE LOST DESPATCH
BY
NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN
AUTHOR OF "THE TREVOR CASE"
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
TO
A GALLANT SOLDIER OF THE UNION
BRIGADIER-GENERAL
SUMNER H. LINCOLN
U.S. ARMY
WHO FOUGHT IN TWO WARS UNDER THE FLAG
THIS NOVEL OF 1865 IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove
And men below, and saints above."
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
I. THE PIGEON'S FLIGHT 1
II. BRAINS VS. BRAWN 8
III. A KNOT OF RIBBON BLUE 19
IV. BANQUO'S GHOST 30
V. A SCRAP OF PAPER 46
VI. THE SIGNAL LIGHT 51
VII. THE MISCHANCES OF A NIGHT 57
VIII. A VOICE FROM THE PAST 64
IX. OUTWITTED 75
X. THE FORTUNES OF WAR 87
XI. WHO LAUGHS LAST 95
XII. THE FIGHT AT THE FORD 112
XIII. FOR THE CAUSE 120
XIV. WHEN TRAGEDY GRINS 134
XV. NEMESIS
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