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CONTENTS.CHAPTER PAGETHE DESERTER. I. DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN 3 II. A SUDDEN DEPARTURE 20III. FATHER AND SON 42 IV. THE "MEANEST WORD" 60 V. THE DEPUTY MARSHAL 80 VI. A HOME IN THE WOODS 98VII. ANOTHER CHASE AFTER MOSE 117A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS. I. THE VALLEY OF DEATH 139 II. LAFE RECONNOITRES THE VALLEY 157III. THE BOUNTY-JUMPER 177 IV. RED PETE IN CAPTIVITY 198 V. LAFE RESCUES AN OFFICER, AND FINDS HIS COUSIN 216HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME. I. THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER 239 II. A BURST FOR FREEDOM 260III. A STRANGE CHRISTMAS EVE 279 IV. UP IN THE WORLD 299WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS. I. HUGH THE WRITER 319 II. SIR HEREWARD'S RING 350III. HOW HUGH MET THE PRINCE THE DESERTER.CHAPTER I.DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN.It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is nojoke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black intoken of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used tobe driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itselfbreast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wildernesshad been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneerdays, but this change, if anything, served only to add greaterbitterness to the winter's cold.Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morninghe had ever known. It would be bad enough when daylight came, but thedarkness of this early hour made it almost too much for flesh and bloodto bear. There had been a stray star or two visible overhead when hefirst came out-of-doors at half-past four, but even these were missingnow.

Excerpt from The Deserter and Other Stories: A Book of Two WarsIt was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold.Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morning he had ever known.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Harold Frederic (born Harold Henry Frederick; August 19, 1856 – October 19, 1898) was an American journalist and novelist. Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a railroad accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at age fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the newspaper The Utica Herald and then The Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter. Frederic married Grace Green Williams in 1877, and they had five children together. By 1882 he was editor of the newspaper The Albany Evening Journal in the state capital. In 1884 Frederic went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times, and worked at this position for the rest of his life. He brought his family to London by 1889. Afterward he met Kate Lyon, who became his mistress. Frederic and Lyon established a second household, living openly together; and they had three illegitimate children. Frederic wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published Illumination (1896), better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware; followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his talent as a novelist was fully realized. Critic Jonathan Yardley called Damnation "a minor classic of realism". Kate Lyon was a Christian Scientist. When Frederic suffered a stroke in 1898, she tried to cure him by faith healing.After his death, she was tried on charges of manslaughter brought by his wife Grace Frederic, and acquitted at trial.

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