Chapter I: Front Matter

DAD

BY
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

_Author of_
“THE FIGHTER,”
“CALEB CONOVER,” “THE WOMAN,” etc.

FRONTISPIECE BY
W. D. GOLDBECK

NEW YORK
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT 1914 BY
W. J. WATT & COMPANY

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

TO

“The Sunnybank People”

THIS STORY IS
LOVINGLY DEDICATED

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Interruption 1

II. Disgrace 11

III. Outcast 19

IV. Fourteen Years Later 30

V. Past-Worthy 40

VI. The Chums 48

VII. Left Behind 55

VIII. Council of War 63

IX. A Lesson in Manners 75

X. Sergeant Dadd 84

XI. Devil and Deep Sea 97

XII. The Little Lady 103

XIII. The Alarm 112

XIV. Dad the Paladin 124

XV. Fighting Joe 132

XVI. The Chickahominy 139

XVII. “Battle Jimmie” 148

XVIII. “General” Dadd 155

XIX. The Clash 165

XX. The Prodigal Father 174

XXI. The Little Lady Again 181

XXII. The Afterglow 189

XXIII. The Attack 200

XXIV. A Lost Burden 209

XXV. The Three Comrades 218

XXVI. The Iron Chess-Game 226

XXVII. A Stern Chase 237

XXVIII. Check and Countercheck 248

XXIX. The End of the Fight 260

XXX. Battle Jimmie, Courier 266

XXXI. Jimmie and the Generals 273

XXXII. Love 283

XXXIII. War! 290

XXXIV. The Man at Washington 297

“DAD”