XIX. KATHERINE DECIDES
XX. HARVEY
XXI. THE TILLMAN CITY STOCK
XXII. THE WINNING OF THE ROAD
XXIII. THE SURRENDER




CHAPTER I


JIM WEEKS

James Weeks came of a fighting stock.

His great-grandfather, Ashbel Weeks, was born in Connecticut in 1748; he
migrated to New York in '70, and settled among the Oneida Indians on the
Upper Mohawk. It was the kind of life he was built for; he sniffed at
danger like a young horse catching a breath off the meadows. He did not
take the war fever until St. Leger came up the valley, when he fought
beside Herkimer in the ambush on Oriskany Creek. He joined the army of the
North, and remained with it through the long three years that ended at
Yorktown; then he married, and returned to his home among the
half-civilized Oneidas.

His oldest son, Jonathan, was born in '90. He grew like his father in
physique and temperament, and his migrating disposition led him to
Kentucky. The commercial instinct, which had never appeared in his father,
was strong in him, so that he turned naturally to trading. He began in a