Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team The Works of E. P. Roe VOLUME ELEVEN TAKEN ALIVE AND OTHER STORIES WITH AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATED CONTENTS "A NATIVE AUTHOR CALLED ROE" TAKEN ALIVE: I. SOMETHING BEFORE UNKNOWN II. A VISITOR AT THE MINE III. THWARTED IV. TAKEN ALIVE V. WHAT BRANDT SAW CHRISTMAS EVE FOUND YET LOST: I. LOVE IN THE WILDERNESS II. LOVE AT HOME III. "DISABLED" IV. MARTINE SEEKS AN ANTIDOTE V. SECOND BLOOM VI. MORE THAN REWARD VII. YANKEE BLANK VIII. "HOW CAN I?" IX. SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS X. "YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND" XI. MR. KEMBLE'S APPEAL XII. "YOU MUST REMEMBER" XIII. "I'M HELEN" XIV. "FORWARD! COMPANY A" QUEEN OF SPADES AN UNEXPECTED RESULT A CHRISTMAS-EVE SUIT THREE THANKSGIVING KISSES SUSIE ROLLIFFE'S CHRISTMAS JEFF'S TREASURE: I. ITS DISCOVERY II. ITS INFLUENCE CAUGHT ON THE EBB-TIDE CHRISTMAS EVE IN WAR TIMES A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS "A NATIVE AUTHOR CALLED ROE" An Autobiography Two or three years ago the editor of "Lippincott's Magazine" asked me, with many others, to take part in the very interesting "experience meeting" begun in the pages of that enterprising periodical. I gave my consent without much thought of the effort involved, but as time passed, felt slight inclination to comply with the request. There seemed little to say of interest to the general public, and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all. The question, Why should I? always confronted me. When this request was again repeated early in the current year, I resolved at least to keep my promise. This is done with less reluctance now, for the reason that floating through the press I meet with paragraphs concerning myself that are incorrect, and often absurdly untrue. These literary and personal notes, together with many questioning letters, indicate a certain amount of public interest, and I have concluded that it may be well to give the facts to those who care to know them.