PREFACE. CHAPTER I. Bound for the Fort CHAPTER II. Caves in the Mountain CHAPTER III. An Important Conversation CHAPTER IV. Lost in the Forest CHAPTER V. The Big Black Bear CHAPTER VI. Darry Makes a Discovery CHAPTER VII. At Hank Leeson's Cabin CHAPTER VIII. The Stealing of the Horses CHAPTER IX. Arrival at the Fort CHAPTER X. The Result of a Swim CHAPTER XI. Something about Drilling CHAPTER XII. Deer Hunting CHAPTER XIII. A Fish and a Snake CHAPTER XIV. Over the Mountain Top CHAPTER XV. The Result of a Hurricane CHAPTER XVI. Captain Moore's Adventure CHAPTER XVII. Three Prisoners CHAPTER XVIII. Benson Puts Some Men in a Hole CHAPTER XIX. Escaping in the Darkness CHAPTER XX. Something about White Ox CHAPTER XXI. A Trick of the Enemy CHAPTER XXII. In the Hands of the Enemy CHAPTER XXIII. A Panther in Camp CHAPTER XXIV. The Skirmish in the Brush CHAPTER XXV. A Lucky Meeting CHAPTER XXVI. The Enemies within the Fort CHAPTER XXVII. Signals and what Followed CHAPTER XXVIII. The Demands of the Enemy CHAPTER XXIX. Opening of the Battle CHAPTER XXX. Signals in the Dark CHAPTER XXXI. Burning of the Stockade CHAPTER XXXII. Relief at Last—Conclusion BY THE SAME AUTHOR