CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE NIGHT AT SEA

CHAPTER II. KATE AYLESFORD

CHAPTER III. THE SHIPWRECK

CHAPTER IV. MORNING

CHAPTER V. THE COUNTRY TAVERN

CHAPTER VI. MAJOR GORDON

CHAPTER VII. THE ABORTIVE ATTEMPT

CHAPTER VIII. THE RESCUE

CHAPTER IX. SWEETWATER

CHAPTER X. ARAB

CHAPTER XI. THE RIDE

CHAPTER XII. UNCLE LAWRENCE

CHAPTER XIII. KATE

CHAPTER XIV. THE MARCH ON TRENTON

CHAPTER XV. THE FIRE IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER XVI. THE MISUNDERSTANDING

CHAPTER XVII. JEALOUSY

CHAPTER XVIII. THE COUNTRY CHURCH

CHAPTER XIX. THE MEETING

CHAPTER XX. THE INTERRUPTION

CHAPTER XXI. AYLESFORD AND MRS. WARREN

CHAPTER XXII. AYLESFORD AND KATE

CHAPTER XXIII. THE REFUGEE'S HUT

CHAPTER XXIV. THE PLOT

CHAPTER XXV. TREACHERY

CHAPTER XXVI. POMP'S ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XXVII. THE ABDUCTION

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VOLUNTEERS

CHAPTER XXIX. CHESTNUT NECK

CHAPTER XXX. THE PURSUIT

CHAPTER XXXI. THE REFUGEE REVEL

CHAPTER XXXII. THE ATTACK

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SACK OF CHESTNUT NECK

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE REPULSE

CHAPTER XXXV. THE DEATH-BED

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXXVII. INTERCEPTED

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE FLIGHT

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE BLOODHOUND

CHAPTER XL. POMP AGAIN

CHAPTER XLI. THE PRISONERS

CHAPTER XLII. THE RELEASE

CHAPTER XLIII. PULASKI

CHAPTER XLIV. THE PURSUIT

CHAPTER XLV. THE DEATH-SHOT

CHAPTER XLVI. SWEETWATER AGAIN

CHAPTER XLVII. THE ORPHAN CHILD

CHAPTER XLVIII. THE AYLESFORD MANSION

CHAPTER XLIX. MAGGY

CHAPTER L. A WEDDING IN 1780

CHAPTER LI. FAREWELL

KATE AYLESFORD

A STORY OF THE REFUGEES


BY CHARLES J. PETERSON

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Who never to himself hath said
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