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XLIII That Sabbath at Shiloh
XLIV "They Were all Four Together"
XLV Steve--Maxime--Charlie--
XLVI The School of Suspense
XLVII From the Burial Squad
XLVIII Farragut
XLIX A City in Terror
L Anna Amazes Herself
LI The Callender Horses Enlist
LII Here They Come
LIII Ships, Shells, and Letters
LIV Same April Day Twice
LV In Darkest Dixie and Out
LVI Between the Millstones
LVII Gates of Hell and Glory
LVIII Arachne
LIX In a Labyrinth
LX Hilary's Ghost
LXI The Flag-of-Truce Boat
LXII Farewell, Jane!
LXIII The Iron-clad Oath
LXIV "Now, Mr. Brick-Mason--"
LXV Flora's Last Throw
LXVI "When I Hands in My Checks"
LXVII Mobile
LXVIII By the Dawn's Early Light
LXIX Southern Cross and Northern Star
LXX Gains and Losses
LXXI Soldiers of Peace
OTHER BOOKS BY MR. CABLE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"If any one alive," he cried, "knows any cause why this thing should not be"

Anna

"'Tis good-by, Kincaid's Battery"

And the next instant she was in his arms

"No! not under this roof--nor in sight of these things."

"You 'ave no ri-ight to leave me! Ah, you shall not!"

She dropped into a seat, staring like one demented.

Kincaid's Battery

I

CARROLLTON GARDENS

For the scene of this narrative please take into mind a wide quarter-circle of country, such as any of the pretty women we are to know in it might have covered on the map with her half-opened fan.

Let its northernmost corner be Vicksburg, the famous, on the Mississippi. Let the easternmost be Mobile, and let the most southerly and by far the most important, that pivotal corner of the fan from which all its folds radiate and where the whole pictured thing opens and shuts, be New Orleans. Then let the grave moment that gently ushers us in be a long-ago afternoon in the Louisiana Delta.

Throughout that land