Front matter
Reading edition
"STRAIGHT AWAY THE BIRD FLEW" See p. 63
Two Prisoners
By Thomas Nelson Page
Illustrated in Color by Virginia Keep
New York R. H. Russell MCMIII
Copyright, 1898 By ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL Copyright, 1903 By HARPER & BROTHERS
To the memory of ALFRED B. STAREY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are made to Messrs. Harper & Brothers, in whose magazine, Harper's Young People, when under the management of the late Alfred B. Starey, some years ago, this story in a condensed form first appeared. The story has been rewritten and amplified.—T.N.P.