Front matter

BY

CY WARMAN

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1899

Copyright, 1899, By Charles Scribner’s Sons. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

TO BRYAN WARMAN WITH A FATHER’S LOVE

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Passing of the Watchman 1

II. Again the Reaper 8

III. Sleeping out 13

IV. The Flood 21

V. Tommy’s Requisition 30

VI. They hoist the Flag 35

VII. The Labor Question 40

VIII. Little Jack’s Promotion 44

IX. Tommy flags the White Mail 49

X. Tommy McGuire sees the City 55

XI. The Hold-up at Casey’s Tank 67

XII. McGuire goes West 82

XIII. McGuire learns Telegraphy 90

XIV. Station-master McGuire 99

XV. The Coming of the Sioux 108

XVI. McGuire goes Switching 119

XVII. Snowbound 132

XVIII. Breaking the Trail 151

XIX. A New Line 157

XX. Coming Home 161

XXI. On a Rolling Sea 171

XXII. The New President 176

XXIII. The Maid of Erin 184

XXIII. Over the Big Bridge 194

The White Mail