Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment. Calvin Henderson Wiley Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment. Table of Contents Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment....................................................................................................1 Calvin Henderson Wiley................................................................................................................................1 DEDICATION THE SECOND.....................................................................................................................3 TO .............................................................................................................................................................3 PREFACE......................................................................................................................................................3 HORACE LOCKWITTER, OF NEW YORK...............................................................................................3 CHAPTER I. ALAMANCE IN THE OLDEN TIME...................................................................................6 CHAPTER II. THE DESCRIPTION OF ALAMANCE CONTINUED BY THE PARSON.......................9 CHAPTER III. THE OLD−FIELD SCHOOL.............................................................................................12 CHAPTER IV. A VISIT TO THE OLD−FIELD SCHOOL.......................................................................14 CHAPTER V. THE TURNING OUT OF THE MASTER.........................................................................18 CHAPTER VI. A GREAT MAN AT ALAMANCE...................................................................................23 CHAPTER VII. A CHRISTMAS DINNER AT ALAMANCE..................................................................28 CHAPTER VIII. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.............................................................................................32 CHAPTER IX. THE STORY OF HECTOR M'BRIDE..............................................................................36 TO MISS MALVINA..................................................................................................................................37 TO SOPHRONIA........................................................................................................................................37 TO ANASTASIAA Wish..........................................................................................................................38 ROTHA'S SONG.........................................................................................................................................42 CHAPTER X................................................................................................................................................45 CHAPTER XI. A SAGE CONVERSATION AND A SAGE CONCLUSION..........................................48 TO EDITH.................................................................................................................................................49 ON HER QUITTING SCHOOL.................................................................................................................50 CHAPTER XII. THE CHART.....................................................................................................................51 CHAPTER XIII. CHARACTER IN WHOM ALL OUR READRRS WILL RECOGNIZE AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.....................................................................................................................................54 CHAPTER XIV. THE FISH−FRYA KETTLE OF FISH. ...................................................................56 CHAPTER XV. A LADY CONFIDENT AND A SENTIMENTAL LADY.............................................61 CHAPTER XVI. A SCENE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, AND ONE IN FRONT......................................63 CHAPTER XVII..........................................................................................................................................66 Miss Artemesia to Henry Warden................................................................................................................67 CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXHIBITION.......................................................................................................69 CHAPTER XIX. WAR................................................................................................................................73 CHAPTER XX. THE HEROINES OF ALAMANCE................................................................................74 CHAPTER XXI. WARAT HOME............................................................................................................75 CHAPTER XXII. A BURIAL AT ALAMANCE.......................................................................................77 CHAPTER XXIII. WARON THE EMBATTLED FIELD.......................................................................78 CHAPTER XXIV. RETROSPECTIONS....................................................................................................80 CHAPTER XXV. A MOUNTAIN HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA...................................................83 CHAPTER XXVI. ADVENTURES IN THE MOUNTAINS.....................................................................85 CHAPTER XXVII. LUCY NEAL...............................................................................................................89 CHAPTER XXVIII......................................................................................................................................91 CHAPTER XXIX. HOME AFTER A LONG ABSENCE..........................................................................94 CHAPTER XXX. DISCOVERIES..............................................................................................................97 CHAPTER XXXI. WARDEN LEAVES ALAMANCE AGAIN.............................................................100 'WHEN TIME ITS SILENT WORK HAS DONE....................................................................................101 CHAPTER XXXII.....................................................................................................................................102 CHAPTER XXXIII....................................................................................................................................106 i Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment. Table of Contents Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment. CHAPTER XXXIV....................................................................................................................................107 CHAPTER XXXV.....................................................................................................................................110 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE COUNTRY INN.............................................................................................113 CHAPTER XXXVII..................................................................................................................................115 CHAPTER XXXVIII. CAPTAIN DEMIJOHN SETS OUT TO SEE THE WIDOW POWELL............118 CHAPTER XXXIX. TRAGEDY AT THE INN.......................................................................................123 CHAPTER XL. SCRAPS OF MY OWN HISTORY................................................................................125 BY ALAN ROSS.......................................................................................................................................125 IMPROMPTU,...........................................................................................................................................129 CHAPTER XLI. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE AND A NEW ONE.......................................................130 CHAPTER XLII. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALAN ROSS CONTINUED......................................132 TO LOUISE.............................................................................................................................................137 WE MET AS STRANGERS.....................................................................................................................137 CHAPTER XLIII.......................................................................................................................................140 CHAPTER XLIV.......................................................................................................................................142 CHAPTER XLV. EVENTS HASTEN TO THEIR CONCLUSION........................................................145 CHAPTER XLVI. A NIGHT OF ADVENTURES...................................................................................147 CHAPTER XLVII. EVENTS STILL HASTEN ONWARD.....................................................................150 CHAPTER XLVIII....................................................................................................................................152 CHAPTER XLIX.......................................................................................................................................155 CHAPTER L..............................................................................................................................................155 'Nathan Glutson To Public Justice, Dr.......................................................................................................158 CHAPTER LI. A SAD AND SWEET REMEMBRANCE.......................................................................161 CHAPTER LII. THE MASTER BEGINS TO MAKE A STRANGE DISCOVERY...............................163