KITTY'S CONQUEST. BY CHARLES KING, U.S.A., AUTHOR OF "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER." PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. 1890. Copyright. 1884, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. J. B. Lippincott & Co. PREFACE. The incidents of this little story occurred some twelve years ago, and it was then that the story was mainly written. If it meet with half the kindness bestowed upon his later work it will more than fulfil the hopes of CONTENTS THE AUTHOR. February, 1884. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. KITTY'S CONQUEST. CHAPTER I. It was just after Christmas, and discontentedly enough I had left my cosy surroundings in New Orleans, to take a business-trip through the counties on the border-line between Tennessee and northern Mississippi and Alabama. One sunny afternoon I found myself on the "freight and passenger" of what was termed "The Great Southern Mail Route." We had been trundling slowly, sleepily along ever since the conductor's "all aboard!" after dinner; had met the Mobile Express at Corinth when the shadows were already lengthening upon
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