The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Soldier's Trial, by Charles King

Title: A Soldier's Trial

An Episode of the Canteen Crusade

Author: Charles King

Release Date: May 9, 2010 [eBook #32311]

Language: English

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A SOLDIER'S TRIAL

AN EPISODE OF

The Canteen Crusade

BY GENERAL CHARLES KING

AUTHOR OF "A DAUGHTER OF THE SIOUX," "COMRADES
IN ARMS," "THE MEDAL OF HONOR," ETC.

NEW YORK
THE HOBART COMPANY
1905

Copyright, 1905,
BY THE HOBART COMPANY

Brig.-Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U.S.A., says: "It is distressing that the prosperity of the keepers of vile resorts is due to the activity of good and worthy though misguided citizens, who have succeeded in abolishing the canteen in the army."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Two Announcements
CHAPTER II. A Face from the Philippines
CHAPTER III. A Night at Naples
CHAPTER IV. "She is Coming Here!"
CHAPTER V. Premonitory Symptoms
CHAPTER VI. A Bride—and a Beau
CHAPTER VII. The Wolf in the Sheepfold
CHAPTER VIII. Accusing Letters
CHAPTER IX. An Invitation—to Go
CHAPTER X. A Gathering Storm
CHAPTER XI. Deeper in the Toils
CHAPTER XII. What the Women Told the Major
CHAPTER XIII. Worst Deed of His Life
CHAPTER XIV. Reaction
CHAPTER XV. Retribution
CHAPTER XVI. My Lady's Maid
CHAPTER XVII. A Momentous Day
CHAPTER XVIII. Blenke Covers His Tracks
CHAPTER XIX. Again the Saloon
CHAPTER XX. A Mother's Dread
CHAPTER XXI. Love's Last Appeal
CHAPTER XXII. The Lost Found
CHAPTER XXIII. A Welcome Peril
CHAPTER XXIV. Crisis
CHAPTER XXV. Black Wolf's Battle
CHAPTER XXVI. Truth Stranger than Fiction
CHAPTER XXVII. Exeunt Omnes

A SOLDIER'S TRIAL

CHAPTER I

TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS

The