The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1916. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 364 The red debt : echoes...
Chapters (96)
- E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/)
- THE RED DEBT
- ECHOES FROM KENTUCKY
- ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF WILLIAM OBERHARDT
- G. W. DILLINGHAM CO. NEW YORK The Red Debt COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PUBLISHED APRIL, 1916 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LINOTYPE COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPES, PRESSWORK AND BINDING BY The J. J. Little & Ives Company 425-435 East 24th Street New York City N. Y.
- WITH UNUTTERABLE LOVE I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO My Mother THE AUTHOR
- "... use me as best you can for a grandfather?"
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE RED DEBT
- CHAPTER I
- A MIGHTY MAN
- CHAPTER II
- BELLE-ANN BENSON
- CHAPTER III
- THE TRAITOR
- CHAPTER IV
- AN ULTIMATUM
- CHAPTER V
- ORLICK'S MONEY SPURNED
- "Yo' know where they be."
- CHAPTER VI
- UPON THE ALTAR
- CHAPTER VII
- DEDICATED WITH HIS BLOOD
- CHAPTER VIII
- "LESSEN HE KILLS THE REVENUER"
- CHAPTER IX
- ORLICK WORKS EVIL
- CHAPTER X
- IN PRISON
- "He kilt my maw—he ded—an' he kilt my pap."
- CHAPTER XI
- A FRIEND IN NEED
- CHAPTER XII
- THE STIGMA
- CHAPTER XIII
- RUBRIC DROPS
- CHAPTER XIV
- "THE ONLYEST LUTTS"
- CHAPTER XV
- BUDDY FORCES AN ISSUE
- "Who air th' head o' th' people—who air Cap'in heah in Moon?"
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE MURDER PARTNERS
- CHAPTER XVII
- CIRCUIT COURT
- CHAPTER XVIII
- THE GRAVEYARD MASSACRE
- CHAPTER XIX
- HATFIELD OVERTAKES THE TRAITOR
- CHAPTER XX
- IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY
- CHAPTER XXI
- "DRAW—NOW—COWARD!"
- CHAPTER XXII
- THE MISSION SCHOOL
- CHAPTER XXIII
- BELLE-ANN VISITS LEXINGTON
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE GUEST OF A GRANDEE
- CHAPTER XXV
- KNOW YE THE TRUTH
- CHAPTER XXVI
- BELLE-ANN HAS A VISION
- CHAPTER XXVII
- A GRANDFATHER
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- A CONFESSION
- CHAPTER XXIX
- THE RED DEBT
- CHAPTER XXX
- THE SHOOTING OF PETER BURTON
- CHAPTER XXXI
- IN WHICH SLAB PROPHESIES
- CHAPTER XXXII
- THE NEAR ASSASSIN
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- BELLE-ANN COMES BACK
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- THE REUNION
- CHAPTER XXXV
- THE DOWNFALL OF SAP McGILL
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- BELLE-ANN'S RECANTED CREED
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- THE GHOST-MAN
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- THE HAUNTED CHURCH
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- THE FLIGHT
- CHAPTER XL
- HIS ROCK OF AGES
- CHAPTER XLI
- IN WHICH PROVIDENCE TAKES A HAND
- "Hit air God's buryin' now."
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