Show THE STORY CHAPTER 1 ills his english wife catherine and twelve year old son soil greenis jre enis bblain french lre nh settled i in canada in ili 1749 it a farm adji went to tile As the lie story the bblain family Is on its way home from it a visit to the Tont euis eurs catherines wandering brother broth tr li meets meeta them CHA tl 11 as Is hit h custom has brought biou prest rits fur cur tilt hit sister ami tier family to in lecias decilis lit in gives a did fd pece p acce of e rl vl vel vet laughingly tell itil bg Tin file tm buy it Is W t bu be li u aluni jet tits to lo Tont eur dinall daughter nf lot the che yet sel kneur anear also gives jeems it 11 pistol bidd ny ng win him perfect perl oct hasaf in ill marksman still for foi tile the people of tin frontier tire nie t constantly in fear of raid by indian war vim parties pailles pait les allies of thi I ing ish ill fears caara ful fui the safety of tile the bUl Lulal aillS ns in ill their isu ISO position but genrl laughs at idea of alliger IL lIger jems prents pru anti the velvet to conette inette Io her cousin pau tache a few years ulder older than ihan jeems contrive to throw the maicel away jeems the act arilon loii and att attacks ackt paul faul but the littler whips tie the smaller boy bov CHAPT LIt lv IV next net day jeems feel ing illg he wait wrung aton lit in braw eftig toinette Tol netto nette goes to lier her home to otter offer hit his apol apologies ogles lie ile hears madame refer to him as it a little 14 last jast b but u t makes beuins his apologies apo luila ani it n ip s b linini 1 I w N in tio thing of what lit ill had overheard ard fleps hepsibah ibah takes lill is go 0 to que bee whore I 1 ix to be 1 t after tour years during which seems practice ily reaches rei iches mann manduca uca the too ton teura return vir alvar between bet veen britain and ant prance arid french settlers sett lert crt hasten to lo join dieskau Dl eskau french corn COM mander ander ni henrt and jeers leinann ul at home absent one day on a hunting trip jeems heern sees from a distance his home in flames ca CHAP APT TEIl 0 it V ile he finds his rattler aria dead and the house arid and barn bain I 1 abing A hatchet of ena maka alca left on oil the scene convinces him alie bl slaughter aughter Is 13 the work of mohawk jo hawk in ili english Un felish allies the sound or gunfire has come to him from the tort ton eur Belene urle arid and at dawn rearing eor tobnette Tol nette he hastens there ton eur aur and his s servants are dead A shut voun vounda ds Je jeems ellis believing him an all tonette tanette from rom a hiding place n the alia mill has tired on him lid ha rushes U hes to t the he mill where the girl denounces bounces is h librn IM ad an L aliman arid and tries fries to icell him fainting before she sha nn an carry out her design vl VI Ite covering con elous nes Tol notte continues to leema jeems w with j t the tha work of tits hla blends atter after burying in a dr allow grave jeems returns to his hia murdered parents the girl follows hini him tho iha sight of alenri bblain arid and cath alne dead convinces her she has haa been wrong in her suspicions of the bu laia family jeems buries tits ills parents parent and with tobnette Tol nette goes to an aban dolled house in hiding they watch lie he mohall war p party arty pass pa CHAPTER vil tells feema now how she escaped the slaughter liar her mother la Is in quebec jeems Is convinced Hep liets albah ibah la Is dead he plans to take the girl to friends on the willy jeems rights with and kills a renegade ren esada who had been with the mohawk raiders ral deis the renegade had tired it shot before jeems kills him ind and tearing fearing the In indians dialls will ii har ar and return tile tho fugitives seek a lilmina place placa they hey are discovered by a band of at son san eca indiana CHAPTER VIII tiaona chief of the party spares the fugitives and agrees to allow them to accompany his band un on their jour journey a to their destination afro if tobnette Tol nette can endure the march the girls eirls bravery to hirn him arb in the inclan fashion lie be adopts her as his ha daughter CHAPTER IX at jeni J eni and tobnette Tol nette are formally admitted into the seneca tribe jeems as the son of the cloud laed warrior wan lor and cloud tobnette Tol nette t a as sa s1 ver heels adopted daughter of the great chief tiaona deenis realizes that he and toinette are captives forever to fo rever in the forest fast nose nasa of Chenu falo escape seeming all impassibility CHAPTER X famine threatens and ili the indiana form into groups each to range a section in se search 0 of f suat busts nance jems jeems and Tol T 1 natte no are nep lisp abated but meet again in the sprint spring A WaIL dering priest unites them newt new corne comes a that tiaona and his war party have met disaster deenis Is sent t Kan Kane eatlo stio 79 70 miles distant with a prisoner and a remnant of his band arrive the prisoner pil sonar Is hepsibah adams adam me ile Is to be burned ut at the stake CHAPTER XI tobnette Tol nette vainly a ap peals to tiaona tor for I 1 life 1 F she bhe Is allowed to allt th the prisoner pirl sone and they escape together tiaona aria ano his braves putmuk them returning eitl the news thit that the fugitives had beer overtaken rind and killed CHAPTER XII at Kane stio beem Is held prisoner pil A savage from che informs him of ToI death fired with desire tor for reven revenge beem revenged geo escapes and readies reaches hi 11 strikes down with an arrow eludes the pursuing Se and join montcalm aiding in that leaders hopeless fight to keep the new F french ench finally in n may 1759 lie he stands with montcalm on the ot of abraham CHAPTER XIII with his french comrades jeems takes part in th great battle for new world supremacy and the end of tho the conflict finds him as it found french hopes shattered CHAPTER XIV jeems from his wounds and roams the streett of clue quebec bec during the battle lie had thought he had seen a dog nig ills companion from boyhood and which he had left with tobnette Tol nette in a vague way he Is searching tor for that dog arid and the search bearch brings brin him to tobnette Tol nette and his little soil ann gelt w with h adams fornette Fol Tol nette tells him of 0 Tia ogas friendliness how he had sent jeems from to save him and connived at tile the escape of hepsibah and tobnette Tol nette bringing the false news of their death and jeems remembers lie he md had stain slain that faithful friend in the spring of 1761 jeems returns to manor and ills his en early r Y home ro restores stores them and Is joined by tobnette Tol netta nette and theirs their son A year y ar later a party of Sene Se caa among bliem tic lain tl ff boga visits the manor jeems aim with tits his arrow that black night flight at Chenu tilo had been faulty and the chief enjoys enjoy for many years t tha friendship of his adopted white daughter arid and her husband arid and children it w was alt ilie testimony of the late lain jam lames s oliver curwood that there was more fact thin than fiction in this novel that the lier heroine olne maria antoinette 1 ur anil and tier her nerce fierce old father lived ind loved luve d us as described in the story that catherine bulian bul aln and tier her vallant valiant ion were ll h and world blond of their lay dav that Sh Indas sliver silver lii lie ls ind aud leveral other of tho the mure inure important i hai arleis were not agures P r of fanoy i V eliat the ilie pin Il lain n of ahi it fiarn lain like ills other talt tale the blink black fl blunter unter to abich it Is cl oely relo relented ted li Is largely a romance lomance of life laiq i it was lived ind not as s it all ait have bai liv 1 T ahe ll 11 thor also almi asserted that the a ut of tm liate rial had been the he most adventure bif r his ufa fe the tr root foot by toot foot ovar ovi r he hallowed ground the reading of letters written writt n by bv hands hand dead a hun dred and fifty years or more the obyr over yellow manuscripts wi VI itten b by y priests and martyrs and kirtly the velling of leves and hates and and happiness of the almost forgotten period embracing i the very birth of both jtb the american and can canadian adlan peoples and weighted fed with happenings that shook the foremost nations nation of the earth antl and largely made them what they are today tha story passes through romances adaven adventures ures and other stirring phases of life in the champlain an and d richelieu regions arid and reaches its fIn finale aleon on t the h e plains of abraham at quebec in that th a t historic struggle which curbed the ambitions amb b I 1 eions of tile the french established the ascendancy of the and drew the first crude boundaries of the future united states and canada CHAPTER I 1 on a sunny afternoon in tiny alay 1749 a dog a boy a man and a woman had crossed the oak oah opens of Ton Tont teura eurs hill and were trailing toward the deeper wilderness of the french frontier westward of the richelieu and lake Champl alfi the dog first the boy following the man next and li it woman I laba it it wits was a reversal of proper form tont cur hall had growled as he watched hem go A fools way of facing a avage ln tested infested country that had no nd tho binti should have marched A the ma n should hava marched at the head of me P realous column nt at the head of his precious column with his long gun ready and his questing eyes alert the woman at to watch vatch and guard with him then the loy ay and the dog if suet such nuisances were to be tolerated in or of this thia icinda with evening coming on was the one legged warrior elg neur frota from whose gristmill down in III th the L valley the four were going home ills eyes had followed the woman with a subdued and appraising hunger in them bulala was a strange man he had thought ile he might be a little crazy crary might even be a fool but lie was also a very I 1 lucky husband to gosses a woman wim trio me arcet fao faco and rid form and the divinely chaste heart of catherine his wife jeems was a fortunate boy to have lier her for for a mother even the dog was a scoundrel for luck lack an indian dog at that A ine sneaking akIng good for nothing dog A wreck of a dog without A a soul to be fed by her petted by her smiled at hy lier her as he had seen her smile was first of the long string if heroic fighting barons settled by prance france along the richelieu to hold the die and their red barbarians barb arlana buck back lie ire was doorkeeper to the water waterway way that led straight to tile the heart of new france if the english iame came with their scalping fiends the alic mohawks find the Se sis they would have to pass over him first of all no general could be glen given greater dis distine tion lion than that honor wealth A wide domain over which he was king and yet ile he envied heart bblain it was maytime shad alws were growing glowing longer toward the bast ast it was the faour nour when birds were singing softly morning had heard their dallance del lance a glorious and fearless clial lenge of feathered minstrelsy 9 to all the spirits of darkness but with late afternoon slin sunset st eve ning these saine alini throated son song found a note of gratitude and of prayer ti lp their chastened chasteney chast ened voices s crushed coughed underfoot in tile open spaces they carpeted the earth wit with 11 white aind rid pink anti and blue flow ars rs and birds arid and si a world title with it a declining sun bun a sa smiling illing heaven li civen of blue over cr the treetops atrid with thrill if a do dog n roy liny a man nd it vo woman mall westward thie thi e of these even the dog ton beur in i ilik lis flog had find a name naine which fitted atlyn Iori Mir hit liace thought for aw ini va 11 is ii 11 vt of it i dog even more a ciril lium ilin the splendid seigneur 1 lit bl ilia of it shot on ill IP leg rid it hi list that bore sword sorl marks anark n ach hief idilea ni an ordinia in il 11 if ite II 11 r IB flog first of all wits n 1 di so homely raif lit vidt alij nor hip help levins hlin hill at sight I 1 enli h r was thistly and unkempt illo HIs liams tinye lawre ills tall rail was liula gone lili I 1 lift wily only it stub to was wag ile lilt a ernp a 0 heavy iver mot that seemed to gollu i ilc ills his long hiiri hody brinn end to end r lit ills loft left fore rew like Tont eurs 1 ewt r avns w is missing A crooked cheery lovable ls log to t whom the dornan ln in it a moment 8 oil ing 0 of f 11 bitne atness of s hid given the dinine i irbie or of odds and ind ends so K was ivas linof right lit in think ing lit f him us it it 11 areek of if a dos dog hut but in i it ther other thin lie he as wrong tin the ilo alog HI ame 11 ave it 11 soul a 11 soul out that be longed ion red to it the hoy boy his hl master that ul ellid a gervat scar seares seared upon it by and aimse in nn an Indi indian nill atnip had found litin four years before find and from froin wah wl 1 h out of pity litty for a rising dying crea turp tum lir lie fit taken enlen horne to feema it mil a I 1 coir cut lit depp hv by dubs clubs and alks it wound that hid had never neer healed and that anade the log dog what he was if creless and atril suspicious hunter of and sounds in the woods of the four who were filing west ward waid lie he seemed to he be the only one who watched and listened for danger to come out of the beauty and stillness of the world about them now and then he glnn Pl up at his macer trouble lay in the boys face and ey eye p and the dog sensed it after a little and whined in a questioning way in ills throat daniel james bblain was the boys name but from from babyhood tits his mother had called him jeems ue ile was t twelve w elve and weighed twenty pounds more than his dog odds and ends called odd far or short ovead d if tile acts in Tout Tont eurs gristmill were right one would have known the dog and the boy belonged together even had they been in a crowd for if odd was a battered old warrior the boy on the other hand blind gave every evidence of an ambition to achieve a similar physical conIl condition tion why hes dressed up like a bold bod bad pirate come to abduct my little girl and hold her tor for ransom ran soia ton ten r had roared down in the valley and jeems tather father had joined the baron in his laughter laug liter then to make the thing worse had turned him round and round slowly and ap pral singly with lovely little adarle antoinette looking ci on her dainty nose bcd in patrician patriel and with paul tache her detestable cousin from the great city of quebec openly leering and grimacing at him from behind tier her back and this after he had prepared himself with painstaking care for adarle Antoin ettes eyes should slie she happen to see him halml I 1 that was the tragedy of it IL ue ile had put on his new doeskin suit ile he carried a gun which wits was two indies inches longer than himself A big powderhorn powder horn swung at his waist in his belt was a knife find and over tits ills shoulder hung tho the most treasured of his possessions a slim ash bow and a quiver filled with arrows ile iio had worn vorn his coonskin cap of fur in spite of the warmth of the day bl because it looked better than the lighter one which was stripped and in this cap was a long turkey feather odd the dog was proud of his martial look ing in master aster but lie he could not under stand the change that had como come over the boy or why he was going home with such a strangely set and solemn face from her position behind the dog the boy and the man catherine bu lain looked upon her world with a joyous and unafraid pride no boy in her opinion could equal jeems and no man tier her husband one could seo see and feel her happiness and as secretly built up the alre of lits hla yearning when he was alone so she loved to exult in her own possessions when her men folk 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