At a Girl's Mercy, or, The Fortunes of War — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

PREFACE. Let no one say that this story of the war ana its changes and chances is not to the life. There is, through the entire book, the touch of truth more strange often than fiction. and even the entrance of the daring burglars is taken from life. Those who read may learn, if already they do not know, that _ real life is more startling many times than the high- est lights set in a novel; and most novels are taken from life to a greater or less degree. EKven the his- tory of the fugitive slaves was taken from the lips of ‘‘Lola’’ herself, and there are other parts as true. , JEAN KATE LUDLUM. Brooklyn, N. Y. m Gomicbooks (E(@)