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"'THERE THEY ARE! SEE? BY THE END OF THE HOUSE!'
EXCLAIMED PHILIP." (See page 98.)

THE
LAST THREE SOLDIERS

BY

WILLIAM HENRY SHELTON

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1897

Copyright, 1896, 1897, by
THE CENTURY CO.

THE DEVINNE PRESS.

WITH AN APOLOGY TO THE LITTLE SISTER
THAT THE PLOT IS NOT MORE BLOOD-CURDLING AND
HARROWING, THIS STORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO HIS YOUNG
FRIENDS GUSSIE AND GENIE DEMAREST
BY THE AUTHOR

145 WEST FIFTY-FIFTH STREET,
NEW YORK, September 4, 1897

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I    Completing the Line

II    The Old Man of the Mountain

III    The Mountain of the Twentieth Red Pin

IV    A Day of Discoveries

V    The Cipher Code

VI    Messages of Dire Disasters

VII    In which the Three Soldiers Make a Remarkable Resolution

VIII    Which Ends in a Battle

IX    The Plateau Receives a Name

X    The Prisoners

XI    In which the Soldiers Make a Map

XII    How the Bear Disgraced Himself

XIII    How the Bear Distinguished Himself

XIV    Which Gives a Nearer View of the Neighbor Called "Shifless"

XV    The Golden Mill

XVI    Which Shows that a Mishap is Not Always a Misfortune

XVII    How the Postmaster Saw a Ghost

XVIII    Knowledge from Above

XIX    The Cave of the Bats

XX    The Stained-glass Windows and the Prismatic Fowls

XXI    A Scrap of Paper

XXII    The Deserted House

XXIII    ...