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Title: Lanier of the Cavalry
or, A Week's Arrest

Author: Charles King

Release Date: October 9, 2006 [eBook #19507]

Language: English

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LANIER OF THE CAVALRY

or

A Week's Arrest

by

GENERAL CHARLES KING

Author of "The Colonel's Daughter," "Marion's Faith,"
"Captain Blake," "Foes in Ambush," "Under Fire," etc.

With illustrations by Frank McKernan

[Illustration: "TELL HIM THAT I'D LIKE AN EXTENSION OF ARREST."
_Page 143_]

[Illustration: logo]

Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1909
Copyright, 1909 by
J. B. Lippincott Company
Published April, 1909
Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
"TELL HIM THAT I'D LIKE AN EXTENSION OF
ARREST." _Frontispiece_

"MR. LANIER, GO TO YOUR ROOM IN ARREST" 26

"BUT DO YOU MEAN COLONEL BUTTON ACCUSED
MR. LANIER OF THOSE LETTERS?" 195

LANIER OF THE CAVALRY

I

The sun was sinking low beyond the ford of the foaming Platte. The
distant bluffs commanding the broad valley of the Sweetwater stood sharp
and