ral as to Anglicise all names
throughout--which will explain the lack of uniformity in this
particular.

The authors have pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness to
M. l'Abbe Casgrain, of Quebec, for valuable personal assistance in
determining local detail, and to Mtre. Joseph Edmond Roy, N.P., of
Levis, for information on the period and the use of his version of
the death of the pere de la Brosse from his interesting monograph,
"Tadoussac."

W. McL. and J. N. McI.

CONTENTS

PART I

MAXWELL'S STORY

I. "After High Floods Come Low Ebbs"
II. I Discover a New Interest in Life
III. "The Dead and the Absent are Always Wrong"
IV. In Which I Make Acquaintance with One Near to Me
V. I Assist at an Interview with a Great Man
VI. How I Take to the Road Again, and of the Company
I Fall in With
VII. How I Come to Take a Great Resolve
VIII. How I Make Both Friends and Enemies in New France
IX. "Joy and Sorrow are Next-door Neighbours"
X. "He who Sows Hatred Shall Gather Rue"
XI. "A Friend at One's Back is a Safe Bridge"

PART II

MARGARET'S STORY

XII. What Happened in the Baie des Chaleurs
XIII. Le Pere Jean, Missionary to the Indians
XIV. I am Directed into a New Path
XV. The Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de St. Veran
XVI. At Beaulieu
XVII. I Find Myself in a False Position
XVIII. I am Rescued from a Great Danger
XIX. On the Isle Aux Coudres
XX. At Quebec
XXI. I Awake from my Dream
XXII. I am Tortured by Myself and Others
XXIII. The Heights of Quebec
XXIV. Reconciliation
XXV. A Forlorn Hope

PART III

MAXWELL'S STORY

XXVI. I Close One Account and Open Another
XXVII. I Find a Key to my Dilemma
XXVIII. I Make a False Move
XXIX. I Put my Fortune to the Touch

Epilogue

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'A REBEL WENCH, LADS, AND MUST SEE HER LOVER CLOSE!'"

"'THAT IS A LIE!' SHE SAID, CALMLY, RAISING HER FACE"

"'WHY DO YOU SLEEP IN YOUR CLOTHES?'"

"'OH, YOUR GRACE, YOUR GRACE, HE IS ALL I HAVE LEFT
IN THE WORLD!'"

"HE ORDERED HIS MEN TO GIVE WAY IN A VOICE THAT SUGGESTED
THE CLAP OF A PRISON DOOR"

"HOW I MADE THEM LAUGH OVER MY APPEARANCE!"

"SHE STOOD ERECT, HER FACE WHITE WITH EMOTION"

"'M. LE LIEUTENANT, YOU HAVE MY SINCEREST SYMPATHY!'"

"I CRAWLED OUT BRUISED, BUT OTHERWISE UNHURT"

"'CHEVALIER, I KNOW YOU NOW'"

"AND