[Illustration: “Get into the hall there and shut the door behind you."] DAD BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE _Author of_ “THE FIGHTER,” “CALEB CONOVER,” “THE WOMAN,” etc. FRONTISPIECE BY W. D. GOLDBECK [Illustration: colophon] NEW YORK W. J. WATT & COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1914 BY W. J. WATT & COMPANY PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. TO “The Sunnybank People” THIS STORY IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Interruption 1 II. Disgrace 11 III. Outcast 19 IV. Fourteen Years Later 30 V. Past-Worthy 40 VI. The Chums 48 VII. Left Behind 55 VIII. Council of War 63 IX. A Lesson in Manners 75 X. Sergeant Dadd 84 XI. Devil and Deep Sea 97 XII. The Little Lady 103 XIII. The Alarm 112 XIV. Dad the Paladin 124 XV. Fighting Joe 132 XVI. The Chickahominy 139 XVII. “Battle Jimmie” 148 XVIII. “General” Dadd 155 XIX. The Clash 165 XX. The Prodigal Father 174 XXI. The Little Lady Again 181 XXII. The Afterglow 189 XXIII. The Attack 200 XXIV. A Lost Burden 209