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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