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Title: A Lost Hero

Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward

Release Date: February 12, 2009 [eBook #28059]

Language: English

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A LOST HERO

[Illustration: A LOST HERO.]

A LOST HERO

by

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD and HERBERT D. WARD

Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill

Boston
Roberts Brothers
1893

Copyright, 1891,
by Roberts Brothers.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
A LOST HERO _Frontispiece_
THE EXPRESS FROM COLUMBIA 11
THE ENTERPRISE OF THE SUMMERVILLE MERCHANT 12
IN THE GROUP AT THE STATION STOOD A WHITE BOY 13
THE BOY TESTED THE HALTER, AND PATTED THE HORSE 15
STRAY GOATS AND MULES GAZED EXPECTANTLY 17
AN OLD NEGRO CAME UP 19
HE PLODDED SLOWLY UP THE TRACK 21
SNAPPED HIS HALTER, AND BROKE AWAY 23
HE GOT DOWN ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AND CRAWLED 24
BIRDS SEE