Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net JOSCELYN CHESHIRE A STORY OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS IN THE CAROLINAS BY SARA BEAUMONT KENNEDY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. [Illustration: "SHE SWEPT HIM A COURTESY FULL OF OPEN DEFIANCE AND RIDICULE."] To my Husband WALKER KENNEDY THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Cupid and Mars 1 II. The March of the Continentals 10 III. Onward to Valley Forge 20 IV. The Company on the Veranda 25 V. Winding the Skein 35 VI. The Fête at Philadelphia 43 VII. A Dare-devil Deed 56 VIII. A Maid's Dream and the Devil's Wooing 65 IX. On Monmouth Plain 73 X. In Clinton's Tents 81 XI. From Camp to Prison 93 XII. A Message out of the North 104 XIII. Dreams 120 XIV. News of Love and War 128 XV. An Awakening and a Mutiny 141 XVI. Into the Jaws of Death 151 XVII. Out of the Shadow and into the Sun 163 XVIII. "Kiss me quick, and let me go" 181 XIX. The Wearing of a Red Rose 192 XX. Joscelyn's Peril 204 XXI. Trapped 217 XXII. "Search my Lady's Wardrobe" 227 XXIII. In Tarleton's Toils 242 XXIV. Thwarted 263 XXV. Good-by, Sweetheart 278 XXVI. By the Beleaguered City 293 XXVII. Homecomings 305 XXVIII. An Unanswered Question 320 XXIX. The End of the Thread 331 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FACING PAGE Frontispiece. "She swept him a courtesy full of open defiance and ridicule." "Thus they passed, with small parley, the picket-posts." 48 "Richard was dragged along with the British until their position was regained." 81 "... The Prisoners lined up and answered to their names." 149 "For a long minute he stood there, trembling, horror-stricken." 164 "'My God, Joscelyn, you will not give me up like that!'" 226 "'I have seen no human being save our party of three.'" 262 "'My Heart's prisoner for time and eternity.'" 331 JOSCELYN CHESHIRE. CHAPTER I. CUPID AND MARS.