[Gutenberg 37244] • Kitty's Conquest

[Gutenberg 37244] • Kitty's Conquest

Excerpt from Kitty's Conquest

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."