Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Map

PART ONE: BUXTON AND CHATHAM

CHAPTER 1: The American Civil War, 1901

CHAPTER 2: Little Better Than a Workhorse

CHAPTER 3: The Tree House

CHAPTER 4: The True Story behind Curly Bennett Losing His Mind

CHAPTER 5: The Phoenix Flies!

CHAPTER 6: Curly and Hickman Make Peace

CHAPTER 7: Demons Invade the Woods

CHAPTER 8: “Who, Then, Shall Bell the … ?”

CHAPTER 9: Never Trust a Genius

CHAPTER 10: A Blessing from Northern Ireland

CHAPTER 11: The Sad End of Charming Little Chalet in the Woods

CHAPTER 12: The South Woods Lion Man

CHAPTER 13: Face-to-Face!

CHAPTER 14: Cornered!

CHAPTER 15: Twenty-Six Letters

CHAPTER 16: An Gorta Mór

CHAPTER 17: Off to Work

CHAPTER 18: The Coffin Ship

CHAPTER 19: A Dirty Job

CHAPTER 20: The Letter!!!!!!

CHAPTER 21: The Return of the Madman of Piney Woods

PART TWO: BENJI AND RED

CHAPTER 22: A Boy Named Red

CHAPTER 23: A Lad Named Benji

CHAPTER 24: Strange Friends

CHAPTER 25: The Invitation

CHAPTER 26: Supper with Red

CHAPTER 27: Dining with Benji

CHAPTER 28: The Lung-Shot Doe

CHAPTER 29: A Murder in the Woods?

CHAPTER 30: The Emotion of Memory

CHAPTER 31: The Quandary

CHAPTER 32: Surprising the Spy

CHAPTER 33: Attacked!

CHAPTER 34: Starting the Hunt

CHAPTER 35: The Scene of the Crime

CHAPTER 36: Tracking

CHAPTER 37: Joining Benji

CHAPTER 38: Memory

CHAPTER 39: Benji on the Edge

CHAPTER 40: The Run for Help

CHAPTER 41: An Irish Lullaby

CHAPTER 42: The Betrayal of the Forest

CHAPTER 43: Sleep

CHAPTER 44: Madness Is Only One Letter from Sadness

CHAPTER 45: Going Home

CHAPTER 46: A Madman’s Final Wishes

CHAPTER 47: He Has Passed

CHAPTER 48: Church

CHAPTER 49: The Service

CHAPTER 50: Endings

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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