E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28059-h.htm or 28059-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/5/28059/28059-h/28059-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/5/28059/28059-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/losthero00pheliala A LOST HERO [Illustration: A LOST HERO.] A LOST HERO by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD and HERBERT D. WARD Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill Boston Roberts Brothers 1893 Copyright, 1891, by Roberts Brothers. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE A LOST HERO _Frontispiece_ THE EXPRESS FROM COLUMBIA 11 THE ENTERPRISE OF THE SUMMERVILLE MERCHANT 12 IN THE GROUP AT THE STATION STOOD A WHITE BOY 13 THE BOY TESTED THE HALTER, AND PATTED THE HORSE 15 STRAY GOATS AND MULES GAZED EXPECTANTLY 17 AN OLD NEGRO CAME UP 19 HE PLODDED SLOWLY UP THE TRACK 21 SNAPPED HIS HALTER, AND BROKE AWAY 23 HE GOT DOWN ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AND CRAWLED 24 BIRDS SEEMED TO SING THROUGH THE AIR 25 HAD THE END OF THE WORLD COME? 27 THEY RAN 31 THE PAUPER DOG 32 THEY WERE ONLY COWS 33 RUN FOR 'T! RUN! 37 AS THEY CAME ABREAST OF THE SECOND LITTLE STATION 41 I SOLE FOR TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ONCT 43 THE RAGGED OLD ARM THAT FELLED IT DOWN 45 THE LITTLE ONE CLIMBED LIKE A MONKEY UPON A SHELF 47 THE OLD MAN SEIZED THE TORPEDOES 48 THIS COMFORTED THE LAD INCREDIBLY 49 "I STUMP YE!" 53 THE STRONG, BLACK FIST WAS CLINCHED 55 HE LAID ONE TORPEDO ON EACH RAIL 57 PAPAe! PAPAe! 62 A LITTLE HUDDLING FIGURE 63 THE LOCALITY WHERE THE TRAIN STOOD WAS EXAMINED THOROUGHLY 67