116

XX. Poor Hugh 118

XXI. Alice and Adah 126

XXII. Waking to Consciousness 133

XXIII. Lina's Letter. 138

XXIV. Foreshadowings 145

XXV. Talking with Hugh 149

XXVI. The Day of the Sale 153

XXVII. The Sale 161

XXVIII. The Ride 165

XXIX. Hugh and Alice 169

XXX. Adah's Journey 177

XXXI. The Convict 184

XXXII. Adah at Terrace Hill 189

XXXIII. Anna and Adah 196

XXXIV. Rose Markham 204

XXXV. The Result 212

XXXVI. Excitement 223

XXXVII. Matters at Spring Bank 227

XXXVIII. The Day of the Wedding 232

XXXIX. The Convict's Story 238

XL. Poor 'Lina 248

XLI. Tidings 255

XLII. Irving Stanley 259

XLIII. Letters from Hugh and Irving Stanley 268

XLIV. The Deserter 272

XLV. The Second Battle of Bull Run 286

XLVI. How Sam Came There 291

XLVII. Finding Hugh 300

XLVIII. Going Home 304

XLIX. Conclusion 314

BAD HUGH

CHAPTER I

SPRING BANK

A large, old-fashioned, weird-looking wooden building, with strangely
shaped bay windows and stranger gables projecting here and there from
the slanting roof, where the green moss clung in patches to the moldy
shingles, or formed a groundwork for the nests the swallows built year
after year beneath the decaying eaves. Long, winding piazzas, turning
sharp, sudden angles, and low, square porches, where the summer sunshine
held many a fantastic dance, and where the winter storm piled up its
drifts of snow, whistling merri