THE TRAITOR
A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire
By Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Illustrated By C. D. Williams
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company
1907
DEDICATED TO THE MEN OF THE SOUTH WHO SUFFERED EXILE. IMPRISONMENT AND DEATH FOR THE DARING SERVICE THEY RENDERED OUR COUNTRY AS CITIZENS OF THE INVISIBLE EMPIRE
This volume closes, as originally planned,
“THE TRILOGY OF RECONSTRUCTION”
“The Leopard’s Spots”
“The Clansman”
“The Traitor”
“The Clansman” ended with the political triumph of the Klu Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire. The story of “The Traitor” opens with the order of dissolution by General Forest and is set in the atmosphere of the fierce neighborhood feuds which marked the Klan’s downfall in the Piedmont region of the South.
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
New York, 1907.
CONTENTS
LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
CHAPTER II—MR. HOYLE RECEIVES A SHOCK
CHAPTER VI—SCALAWAG AND CARPETBAGGER