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Title: The Sun Maid
A Story of Fort Dearborn

Author: Evelyn Raymond

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Language: English

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THE SUN MAID

A Story of Fort Dearborn

by

EVELYN RAYMOND

Author of "The Little Lady of the Horse," Etc.

New York
E. P. Dutton & Company
31 West Twenty-Third St.

Copyright, 1900
By
E. P. Dutton & Co.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

[Illustration: _Page 22._ KITTY AND THE SNAKE. _Frontispiece._]

TO ALL YOUNG HEARTS IN THAT FAIR CITY BY THE INLAND SEA CHICAGO

PREFACE.

In some measure, the story of the Sun Maid is an allegory.

Both the heroine and the city of her love grew from insignificant
beginnings; the one into a type of broadest womanhood, the other into
a grandeur which has made it unique among the cities of the world.

Discouragements, sorrows, and seeming ruin but developed in each
the same high attributes of courage, indomitable will power, and
far-reaching sympathy. The story of the youth of either would be a
tale unfinished; and those who have followed, with any degree of
interest, the fortunes of either during any period will keep that
interest to the end.

There are things which never age. Such was the heart of the Maid who
remained glad as a girl to the end of her century,