Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       THE MAID-AT-ARMS

       I

       THE ROAD TO VARICKS'

       II

       IN THE HALLWAY

       III

       COUSINS

       IV

       SIR LUPUS

       V

       A NIGHT AT THE PATROON'S

       VI

       DAWN

       VII

       AFTERMATH

       VIII

       RIDING THE BOUNDS

       IX

       HIDDEN FIRE

       X

       TWO LESSONS

       XI

       LIGHTS AND SHADOWS

       XII

       THE GHOST-RING

       XIII

       THE MAID-AT-ARMS

       XIV

       ON DUTY

       XV

       THE FALSE-FACES

       XVI

       ON SCOUT

       XVII

       THE FLAG

       XVIII

       ORISKANY

       XIX

       THE HOME TRAIL

       XX

       COCK-CROW

       XXI

       THE CRISIS

       XXII

       THE END OF THE BEGINNING

       THE END

PREFACE

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      After a hundred years the history of a great war waged by a successful nation is commonly reviewed by that nation with retrospective complacency.

      Distance dims the panorama; haze obscures the ragged gaps in the pageant until the long lines of victorious armies move smoothly across the horizon, with never an abyss to check their triumph.

      Yet there is one people who cannot view the past through a mirage. The marks of the birth-pangs remain on the land; its struggle for breath was too terrible, its scars too deep to hide or cover.

      For us, the pages of the past turn all undimmed; battles, brutally etched, stand clear as our own hills against the sky--for in this land we have no haze to soften truth.

      Treading the austere corridor of our Pantheon, we, too, come at last to victory--but what a victory! Not the familiar, gracious goddess, wide-winged, crowned, bearing wreaths, but a naked, desperate creature, gaunt, dauntless, turning her iron face to the west.

      The trampling centuries can