[Frontispiece: "Tell me--please," she begged. "Is
the man dead?"]




A. L. Burt Company
Publishers ---------- New York
Published by arrangement with A. C. McClurg & Company
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1917
Published October, 1917
Copyrighted in Great Britain
Printed in the United States





CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I At Old Fort Armstrong
II On Furlough
III History of the Beaucaires
IV The End of the Game
V Kirby Shows His Hand
VI Into the Black Water