Epigraph
“A bad dhrill, a wake voice, an’ a limp leg—thim three things are the signs av a bad man.”
—Private Mulvaney.
Dedication
TO GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT, U. S. ARMY, OUR HONORED COLONEL IN THE OLD DAYS AND A VALUED FRIEND THROUGH ALL THESE LATER YEARS, THIS STORY IS Inscribed.
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