The Red Debt

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Author

MacDonald, Everett

Title

The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky

Credits

E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( kdl.kyvl.org/)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Kentucky -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36047

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36047

Release Date

May 6, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( http://kdl.kyvl.org/ ) — THE RED DEBT — ECHOES FROM KENTUCKY
2. 2.By Everett MacDonald — ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF WILLIAM OBERHARDT — G. W. DILLINGHAM CO. NEW YORK — The Red Debt — COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY — ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — PUBLISHED APRIL, 1916 — PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LINOTYPE COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPES, PRESSWORK AND BINDING BY The J. J. Little & Ives Company 425-435 East 24th Street New York City N. Y. — WITH UNUTTERABLE LOVE I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO My Mother THE AUTHOR — "... use me as best you can for a grandfather?"
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.THE RED DEBT
6. 6.CHAPTER I — A MIGHTY MAN
7. 7.CHAPTER II — BELLE-ANN BENSON
8. 8.CHAPTER III — THE TRAITOR
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — AN ULTIMATUM
10. 10.CHAPTER V — ORLICK'S MONEY SPURNED — "Yo' know where they be."
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — UPON THE ALTAR
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — DEDICATED WITH HIS BLOOD
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — "LESSEN HE KILLS THE REVENUER"
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — ORLICK WORKS EVIL
15. 15.CHAPTER X — IN PRISON — "He kilt my maw—he ded—an' he kilt my pap."
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — A FRIEND IN NEED
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — THE STIGMA
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — RUBRIC DROPS
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — "THE ONLYEST LUTTS"
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — BUDDY FORCES AN ISSUE — "Who air th' head o' th' people—who air Cap'in heah in Moon?"
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE MURDER PARTNERS
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — CIRCUIT COURT
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — THE GRAVEYARD MASSACRE
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — HATFIELD OVERTAKES THE TRAITOR
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — "DRAW—NOW—COWARD!"
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — THE MISSION SCHOOL
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — BELLE-ANN VISITS LEXINGTON
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — THE GUEST OF A GRANDEE
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — KNOW YE THE TRUTH
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — BELLE-ANN HAS A VISION
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — A GRANDFATHER
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — A CONFESSION
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — THE RED DEBT
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — THE SHOOTING OF PETER BURTON
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — IN WHICH SLAB PROPHESIES
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — THE NEAR ASSASSIN
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — BELLE-ANN COMES BACK
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — THE REUNION
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — THE DOWNFALL OF SAP McGILL
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — BELLE-ANN'S RECANTED CREED
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII — THE GHOST-MAN
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII — THE HAUNTED CHURCH
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX — THE FLIGHT
45. 45.CHAPTER XL — HIS ROCK OF AGES
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI — IN WHICH PROVIDENCE TAKES A HAND — "Hit air God's buryin' now."
47. 47.BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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