Chapter I: Front Matter

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JOSCELYN CHESHIRE

A STORY OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS IN THE CAROLINAS

BY SARA BEAUMONT KENNEDY

NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

To my Husband WALKER KENNEDY THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Cupid and Mars 1
II. The March of the Continentals 10
III. Onward to Valley Forge 20
IV. The Company on the Veranda 25
V. Winding the Skein 35
VI. The Fete at Philadelphia 43
VII. A Dare-devil Deed 56
VIII. A Maid's Dream and the Devil's Wooing 65
IX. On Monmouth Plain 73
X. In Clinton's Tents 81
XI. From Camp to Prison 93
XII. A Message out of the North 104
XIII. Dreams 120
XIV. News of Love and War 128
XV. An Awakening and a Mutiny 141
XVI. Into the Jaws of Death 151
XVII. Out of the Shadow and into the Sun 163
XVIII. "Kiss me quick, and let me go" 181
XIX. The Wearing of a Red Rose 192
XX. Joscelyn's Peril 204
XXI. Trapped 217
XXII. "Search my Lady's Wardrobe" 227
XXIII. In Tarleton's Toils 242
XXIV. Thwarted 263
XXV. Good-by, Sweetheart 278
XXVI. By the Beleaguered City 293
XXVII. Homecomings 305
XXVIII. An Unanswered Question 320
XXIX. The End of the Thread 331

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FACING PAGE

Frontispiece. "She swept him a courtesy
full of open defiance and ridicule."

"Thus they passed, with small parley, the
picket-posts." 48

"Richard was dragged along with the British
until their position was regained." 81

"... The Prisoners lined up and answered
to their names." 149

"For a long minute he stood there, trembling,
horror-stricken." 164

"'My God, Joscelyn, you will not give me
up like that!'" 226

"'I have seen no human being save our party
of three.'" 262

"'My Heart's prisoner for time and eternity.'" 331

JOSCELYN CHESHIRE.