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"Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War By: Kirk Munroe (1850-1930) |
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A Tale of the Spanish American War by KIRK MUNROE Author of "The Painted Desert," "Rick Dale," The "Mate Series," etc. Illustrated New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers 1899 [Frontispiece: The Rough Riders fought without seeing
the enemy.]
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A BOWL OF ROSES
II. WAR IS DECLARED
III. ROLLO THE TERROR
IV. THE ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN ANTONIO
V. RIDGE BECOMES A TROOPER
VI. OFF FOR THE WAR
VII. THE STORY OF HOBSON AND THE MERRIMAC
VIII. CHARGED WITH A SECRET MISSION
IX. HERMAN DODLEY INTERPOSES DIFFICULTIES
X. ON THE CUBAN BLOCKADE
XI. A LIVELY EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN HOSPITALITY
XII. DENOUNCED BY A FRIEND
XIII. TO BE SHOT AT SUNRISE
XIV. REFUGEES IN THE MOUNTAINS
XV. DIONYSIO CAPTURES A SPANIARD
XVI. ASLEEP WHILE ON GUARD
XVII. IN THE HANDS OF SPANISH GUERILLAS
XVIII. DEATH OF SEÑORITA
XIX. CALIXTO GARCIA THE CUBAN
XX. THE TWO ADMIRALS
XXI. A SPANIARD'S LOYALTY
XXII. ROLLO IN CUBA
XXIII. THE "TERRORS" IN BATTLE
XXIV. FACING SAN JUAN HEIGHTS
XXV. RIDGE WINS HIS SWORD
XXVI. MUTINY ON A TRANSPORT
XXVII. DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH SHIPS
XXVIII. LAST SHOT OF THE CAMPAIGN
XXIX. TWO INVALID HEROES
XXX. ROLLO MAKES PROPOSITIONS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ROUGH RIDERS FOUGHT WITHOUT SEEING THE ENEMY . . . (Frontispiece) "SILAS PINE GAZED ABOUT HIM WITH THE AIR OF ONE WHO IS DAZED" "'HIM HOLGUIN SPANIARD. NOW YOU SHOOT HIM,' SAID THE CUBAN" RIDGE ESCORTS A CUBAN FAMILY INTO SANTIAGO
"FORWARD, MARCH!"
CHAPTER I A BOWL OF ROSES In the morning room of a large, old fashioned country house, situated a
few miles outside the city of New Orleans, sat a young man arranging a
bowl of roses. Beside him stood a pretty girl, in riding costume, whose
face bore a trace of petulance. "Do make haste, Cousin Ridge, and finish with those stupid flowers. You
have wasted half an hour of this glorious morning over them already!" she
exclaimed. "Wasted?" rejoined Ridge Norris, inquiringly, and looking up with a
smile. "I thought you were too fond of flowers to speak of time spent in
showing them off to best advantage as 'wasted.'" "Yes, of course I'm fond of them," answered Spence Cuthbert, who was from
Kentucky on a Mardi Gras visit to Dulce Norris, her school chum and
cousin by several removes, "but not fond enough to break an engagement on
account of them." "An engagement?" "Certainly. You promised to go riding with me this morning." "And so I will in a minute, when I have finished with these roses." "But I want you to come this instant." "And leave a duty unperformed?" inquired Ridge, teasingly. "Yes; now." "In a minute." "No. I won't wait another second." With this the girl flung herself from the room, wearing a very determined
expression on her flushed face. Ridge rose to follow her, and then resumed his occupation as a clatter of
hoofs on the magnolia bordered driveway announced the arrival of a
horseman. "She won't go now that she has a caller to entertain," he said to himself. But in this he was mistaken; for within a minute another clatter of
hoofs, mingled with the sound of laughing voices, gave notice of a
departure, and, glancing from an open window, Ridge saw Spence Cuthbert
ride gayly past in company with a young man whose face seemed familiar,
but whose name he could not recall. As they swept by both looked up laughing, while the horseman lifted his
hat in a bow that was almost too sweeping to be polite. "What did you say Ridge was doing?" he asked, as they passed beyond
earshot. "Arranging a bowl of roses," answered Spence. "Nice occupation for a man," sneered the other. "And he preferred doing
that to riding with you?" "So it seems." "Well, I am not wholly surprised, for, as I remember him, he was a
soft hearted, Miss Nancy sort of a boy, who was always coddling sick
kittens, or something of the kind, and never would go hunting because he
couldn't bear to kill things... Continue reading book >>
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