and such the
marvellous Chicago with a century rounded glory which is still the
glory of a youth whose future magnificence no man can estimate.
E. R., BALTIMORE, January, 1900.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN 1
II. TWO FOR BREAKFAST 13
III. IN INDIAN ATTIRE 27
IV. THE WHITE BOW 38
V. HORSES: WHITE AND BLACK 50
VI. THE THREE GIFTS 64
VII. A THREEFOLD CORD IS STRONGEST 77
VIII. AN ISLAND RETREAT 91
IX. AT MUCK-OTEY-POKEE 107
X. THE CAVE OF REFUGE 124
XI. UNDER A WHITE MAN'S ROOF 138
XII. AFTER FOUR YEARS 156
XIII. THE HARVESTING 169
XIV. ONCE MORE IN THE OLD HOME 180
XV. PARTINGS AND MEETINGS 194
XVI. THE SHUT AND THE OPEN DOOR 209
XVII. A DAY OF HAPPENINGS 231
XVIII. WESTWARD AND EASTWARD OVER THE PRAIRIE 247
XIX. THE CROOKED LOG 260
XX. ENEMIES, SEEN AND UNSEEN 272
XXI. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH 284
XXII. GROWING UP 296
XXIII. HEROES 306
XXIV. CONCLUSION 315
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
FORT DEARBORN _Title-page_
BLACK PARTRIDGE AND THE SUN MAID 6
KITTY AND THE SNAKE _Frontispiece_ 22
THE GIFT OF THE WHITE BOW 48
SNOWBIRD AND THE SUN MAID 68
GASPAR AND KITTY REACH THE FORT 188
"KITTY! MY KITTY!" 258
OSCEOLO AND GASPAR 276
THE SUN MAID.
CHAPTER I.
AS THE SUN WENT DOWN.
With gloom in his heart, Black Partridge strode homeward along the
beach path.
The glory of a brilliant August sunset crimsoned the tops of the
sandhills on the west and the waters of the broad lake on the east;
but if the preoccupied Indian observed
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