Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction Page 3

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  SHE GAVE HIM A ROLLING-PIN AND HE SET TO WORK, _Frontispiece_

  FACING PAGE

  AMONG THE COMPANY THAT NIGHT THERE WERE TWO GUESTS WHO “HAPPENED IN” QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY, 14

  THE GIRLS OF THE PLACE TURNED ASIDE, WHENEVER THEY MET THEM, AND PASSED BY WITH THEIR HEADS HELD HIGH, 96

  HE CARRIED OFF IN TRIUMPH A PAIR OF OLD HORSE-PISTOLS, 124

  KU KLUX—“AWFUL FORMS WRAPPED LIKE GHOSTS IN WINDING-SHEETS,” 238

  BEFORE HIM STOOD, TALL AND GRAY, THE INDIAN-KILLER, 262

  “I COULDN’T LET YOU BE RUN AWAY WITH AGAIN UNDER MY VERY EYES,” HE SAID, 328

  STEVE STRETCHED, AND, PICKING UP HIS BOOK, DIVED ONCE MORE INTO THE “IDYLLS OF THE KING,” 376

  SHE GAVE A STEP FORWARD AND WITH A QUICK MOVEMENT PULLED THE MASK FROM HIS FACE, 406

  STILL SPRUNG TO HIS FEET IN UNCONTROLLABLE AGITATION, HIS FACE LIVID, 464

  AND THERE, IN THE LITTLE PARLOR, STEVE AND RUTH WERE MARRIED, 570

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