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“Get into the hall there and shut the door behind you."
DAD
BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Author of “The Fighter,” “Caleb Conover,” “The Woman,” etc. FRONTISPIECE BY W. D. GOLDBECK New York W. J. WATT & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1914 by W. J. WATT & COMPANY PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO “The Sunnybank People” THIS STORY IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED
CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Interruption1
II.Disgrace11
III.Outcast19
IV.Fourteen Years Later30
V.Past-Worthy40
VI.The Chums48
VII.Left Behind55
VIII.Council of War63
IX.A Lesson in Manners75
X.Sergeant Dadd84
XI.Devil and Deep Sea97
XII.The Little Lady103
XIII.The Alarm112
XIV.Dad the Paladin124
XV.Fighting Joe132
XVI.The Chickahominy139
XVII.“Battle Jimmie”148
XVIII.“General” Dadd155
XIX.The Clash165
XX.The Prodigal Father174
XXI.The Little Lady Again181
XXII.The Afterglow189
XXIII.The Attack200
XXIV.A Lost Burden209
XXV.The Three Comrades218
XXVI.The Iron Chess-Game226
XXVII.A Stern Chase237
XXVIII.Check and Countercheck248
XXIX.The End of the Fight260
XXX.Battle Jimmie, Courier266
XXXI.Jimmie and the Generals273
XXXII.Love283
XXXIII.War!290
XXXIV.The Man at Washington297