The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Red Debt, by Everett MacDonald, Illustrated by William Oberhardt

Title: The Red Debt

Echoes from Kentucky

Author: Everett MacDonald

Release Date: May 6, 2011 [eBook #36047]

Language: English

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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

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

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. A Mighty Man
CHAPTER II. Belle-Ann Benson
CHAPTER III. The Traitor
CHAPTER IV. An Ultimatum
CHAPTER V. Orlick's money Spurned
CHAPTER VI. Upon the Altar
CHAPTER VII. Dedicated with his Blood
CHAPTER VIII. "Lessen he kills the Revenuer"
CHAPTER IX. Orlick works Evil
CHAPTER X. In Prison
CHAPTER XI. A Friend in Need
CHAPTER XII. The Stigma
CHAPTER XIII. Rubric Drops
CHAPTER XIV. "The onlyest Lutts"
CHAPTER XV. Buddy forces an Issue
CHAPTER XVI. The Murder Partners
CHAPTER XVII. Circuit Court
CHAPTER XVIII. The Graveyard Massacre
CHAPTER XIX. Hatfield overtakes the Traitor
CHAPTER XX. In the Hands of the Enemy
CHAPTER XXI. "Draw—now—Coward!"
CHAPTER XXII. The Mission School
CHAPTER XXIII. Belle-Ann visits Lexington
CHAPTER XXIV. The Guest of a Grandee
CHAPTER XXV. Know Ye the Truth
CHAPTER XXVI. Belle-Ann has a Vision
CHAPTER XXVII. A Grandfather
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Confession
CHAPTER XXIX. The Red Debt
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