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Title: The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

Illustrator: W. Herbert Dunton
Remington Schutler

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Language: English

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THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA

AND OTHER STORIES

BY CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

AUTHOR OF "THE FAIR MISSISSIPPIAN," "THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY
MOUNTAINS," ETC.

_With Illustrations by_

W. HERBERT DUNTON AND REMINGTON SCHUYLER

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1912

Copyright, 1911, by J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright, 1912, by J. B. Lippincott Company

Published May, 1912

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
At the Washington Square Press
Philadelphia, U.S.A.

[Illustration: HE INSISTED THAT THEY SHOULD SHAKE HANDS AS ON A SOLEMN
COMPACT]

CONTENTS

THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA

WHO CROSSES STORM MOUNTAIN?

THE CRUCIAL MOMENT

UNA OF THE HILL COUNTRY

THE LOST GUIDON

WOLF'S HEAD

HIS UNQUIET GHOST

A CHILHOWEE LILY

THE PHANTOM OF BOGUE HOLAUBA

THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

ILLUSTRATIONS

HE INSISTED THAT THEY SHOULD SHAKE HANDS AS ON A SOLEMN COMPACT

HE CAME UP LIKE A WHIRLWIND

THE UNITED WEIGHT AND IMPETUS OF THE ONSET BURST THE FLIMSY DOORS INTO
FRAGMENTS

WITH ONE HAND HOLDING BACK HER DENSE YELLOW HAIR ... SHE LOOKED UP AT
HIM

THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA

Judgment day was coming to Tanglefoot Cove--somewhat in advance of the
expectation of the rest of the world. Immediate doom impended. A certain
noted guerilla, commanding a reckless troop, had declared a stern
intention of raiding this secluded nook among the Great