Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE RED DEBT

Echoes from Kentucky

by

EVERETT MACDONALD

Illustrations from Original Drawings of William Oberhardt

G. W. Dillingham Co. New York

_The Red Debt_

Copyright, 1916, By G. W. Dillingham Company All Rights Reserved

Published April, 1916

Printed in the United States of America Linotype Composition, Electrotypes, Presswork and Binding By the J. J. Little & Ives Company 425-435 East 24th Street New York City N. Y.

WITH UNUTTERABLE LOVE I DEDICATE
THIS VOLUME TO
My Mother
_THE AUTHOR_

CONTENTS

I A Mighty Man

II Belle-Ann Benson

III The Traitor

IV An Ultimatum

V Orlick's money Spurned

VI Upon the Altar

VII Dedicated with his Blood

VIII "Lessen he kills the Revenuer"

IX Orlick works Evil

X In Prison

XI A Friend in Need

XII The Stigma

XIII Rubric Drops

XIV "The onlyest Lutts"

XV Buddy forces an Issue

XVI The Murder Partners

XVII Circuit Court

XVIII The Graveyard Massacre

XIX Hatfield overtakes the Traitor

XX In the Hands of the Enemy

XXI "Draw--now--Coward!"

XXII The Mission School

XXIII Belle-Ann visits Lexington

XXIV The Guest of a Grandee

XXV Know Ye the Truth

XXVI Belle-Ann has a Vision

XXVII A Grandfather

XXVIII A Confession

XXIX The Red Debt

XXX The Shooting of Peter Burton

XXXI In which Slab prophesies

XXXII The Near Assassin

XXXIII Belle-Ann comes back

XXXIV The Reunion

XXXV The Downfall of Sap McGill

XXXVI Belle-Ann's Recanted Creed

XXXVII The Ghost-Man

XXXVIII The Haunted Church

XXXIX The Flight

XL His Rock of Ages

XLI In which Providence takes a Hand

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"... use me as best you can for a grandfather?"

"Yo' know where _they_ be"

"He kilt my maw--he ded--an' he kilt my pap"

"Who air th' head o' th' people--who air Cap'in heah in Moon?"

"Hit air God's buryin' now"

THE RED DEBT