24 Chapters
TELLS OF TWO PATRIOTS IN TRENTON Nat was right. A half dozen clumsy-looking sleighs, drawn by farm horses, came lumbering slowly along the road; in the light of the lanthorns that swung upon the sid…
HOW COLONEL RAHL PROPOSED GIVING A CHRISTMAS CONCERT George learned that the Hawksworths, with whom Peggy was staying, were an English family who owned vast acreages in the Jerseys; the head of the …
TELLS HOW A FIRE WAS KINDLED ON A HILLSIDE Upon all sides were lighted windows; and through each of them could be seen groups of Hessians feasting or dancing; the sounds of singing and laughter came…
SHOWS HOW THE CONCERT WAS INTERRUPTED When George Prentiss and Peggy Camp reached the inn, they found it brilliant with lights, festoons of green branches and laurels hung all about; holly berries g…