A Little Traitor to the South

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Hero _versus_ Gentleman 15

II. She Hates them Both 33

III. A Strife in Magnanimity 51

IV. Opportunities Embraced 65

V. What happened in the Strong Room 81

VI. An Engine of Destruction 103

VII. The Hour and the Man 115

VIII. Death out of the Deep 125

IX. Miserable Pair and Miserable Night 141

X. A Stubborn Proposition 157

XI. The Confession that Cleared 171

XII. The Culprit is Arrested 185

XIII. Companions in Misery 199

XIV. The Woman Explains 223

XV. The General's Little Comedy 241




ILLUSTRATIONS


"Miss Fanny Glen detested a masterful man" _Frontispiece_

PAGE

"'Ah, Sempland, have you told your little tale?'" 43

"The door was suddenly flung open" 95

"Poor little Fanny Glen ... she had lost on every hand" 153

"'You were a traitor to the South!' said General
Beauregard, coldly" 191

"'Would they shoot me?' she inquired" 219




A Little Traitor to the South




CHAPTER I

HERO VERSUS GENTLEMAN


Miss Fanny Glen's especial detestation was an assumption of authority
on the part of the other sex. If there was a being on earth to whom she
would not submit, it was to a masterful man; such a man as, if
appearances were a criterion, Rhett Sempland at that moment assumed to
be.

The contrast between the two was amusing, or would have been had not
the atmosphere been so surcharged with passionate feeling, for Rhett
Sempland was six feet high if he was an inch, while Fanny Glen by a
Procrustean extension of herself could just manage to cover the
five-foot mark; yet such was the spirit permeating the smaller figure
that there seemed to be no great disparity, from the standpoint of
combatants, between them after all.