Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "HAYWARD ... SENT PRINCE WILLIAM AFTER THE MARE UNDER PRESSURE OF THE SPUR." (See page 114)] *The Call of the South* By Robert Lee Durham Illustrated by Henry Roth "_When your Fear Cometh as Desolation and Your Destruction Cometh as a Whirlwind_" Boston L. C. Page & Company MDCCCCVIII Copyright, 1908 BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London All rights reserved First Impression, March, 1908 Second Impression, April, 1908 COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A. TO THE LION OF HIS TRIBE Stonewall Jackson Durham *List of Illustrations* "HAYWARD ... SENT PRINCE WILLIAM AFTER THE MARE UNDER PRESSURE OF THE SPUR" (See page 114) . . . _Frontispiece_ "CARRIED HIM FOR FORTY YARDS OR MORE THROUGH THE HURRICANE OF LEAD" "HIS WHIP WAS DESCENDING AGAIN WHEN JOHN’S PISTOL FLASHED" "ELISE ... STOPPED SHORT IN THE DOORWAY—AND TURNED QUICKLY BACK" "’I AM HIS WIFE,’ SHE SAID" "HIS ARMS UPON HIS DESK AND HIS FACE UPON HIS ARM—DEAD" *The Call of the South* *CHAPTER I* The President had called upon the Governors for troops; and the brilliantly lighted armory was crowded with the citizen-soldiers who followed the standards of the 71st Ohio, waiting for the bugle to call them to order for the simple and formal ceremony of declaring their desire to answer the President’s call. A formal and useless ceremony surely: for it was a foregone conclusion that this gallant old regiment, with its heroic record in two wars, would volunteer to a man. It was no less certain that, presenting unbroken ranks of willing soldiers, it would be the first selected by the Governor to assist Uncle Sam’s regulars in impressing upon the Kaiser the length and breadth and thickness of the Monroe Doctrine.