# By order of the company

Author: Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45721

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=By+order+of+the+company+Johnston&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The work of the day being over, I sat down upon my doorstep, pipe in hand, to rest awhile in the cool of the evening. Death is not more still than is this Virginian land in the hour when the sun has sunk away, and it is black beneath the trees, and the stars brighten slowly and softly, one by one. The birds that sing all day have hushed, and the horned owls, the monster frogs, and that strange and ominous fowl (if fowl it be, and not, as some assert, a spirit damned) which we English call the whippoorwill, are yet silent. Later the wolf will howl and the panther scream, but now there is no sound. The winds are laid, and the restless leaves droop and are quiet. The low lap of the water amo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-order-of-the-company-45721/chapters/12/index.md)