E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22906-h.htm or 22906-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/9/0/22906/22906-h/22906-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/9/0/22906/22906-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | In this text version the lower case "i" with macron | | is represented by [=i] | +--------------------------------------------------------+ A WAR-TIME WOOING A Story by CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U. S. A. Illustrated New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square Copyright, 1888, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved. [Illustration: "_Colonel Putnam raises to the light of the first lantern a hairy, bushy object._"--[See p. 50.]] ILLUSTRATIONS. "COLONEL PUTNAM RAISES TO THE LIGHT OF THE FIRST LANTERN A HAIRY, BUSHY OBJECT" _Frontispiece_ "THE VIRGINIANS KNEW A BRAVE MAN WHEN THEY SAW ONE" _Facing page_ 8 "THE WHOLE TROOP IS HURRIEDLY SADDLING" " 70 "THEN BATHES, WITH COLOGNE, THE WHITE TEMPLES AND SOFT, RIPPLING, SUNNY HAIR" " 90 "BACK COME THOSE DAREDEVILS OF STUART'S" " 110 "A CAVALRY ORDERLY MAKES HIS APPEARANCE AT THE DOOR" " 136 "THEN A YOUNG SOLDIER, IN HIS STAFF UNIFORM, TAKES THREE SPRINGING STEPS, AND IS AT HER SIDE" " 172 "DRAWS FORTH HER PRECIOUS PICTURE AND LAYS IT AT A RIVAL'S FEET" " 194 A WAR-TIME WOOING. I.