The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn
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Raymond Evelyn. The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN
CHAPTER II. TWO FOR BREAKFAST
CHAPTER III. IN INDIAN ATTIRE
CHAPTER IV. THE WHITE BOW
CHAPTER V. HORSES: WHITE AND BLACK
CHAPTER VI. THE THREE GIFTS
CHAPTER VII. A THREEFOLD CORD IS STRONGEST
CHAPTER VIII. AN ISLAND RETREAT
CHAPTER IX. AT MUCK-OTEY-POKEE
CHAPTER X. THE CAVE OF REFUGE
CHAPTER XI. UNDER A WHITE MAN’S ROOF
CHAPTER XII. AFTER FOUR YEARS
CHAPTER XIII. THE HARVESTING
CHAPTER XIV. ONCE MORE IN THE OLD HOME
CHAPTER XV. PARTINGS AND MEETINGS
CHAPTER XVI. THE SHUT AND THE OPEN DOOR
CHAPTER XVII. A DAY OF HAPPENINGS
CHAPTER XVIII. WESTWARD AND EASTWARD OVER THE PRAIRIE
CHAPTER XIX. THE CROOKED LOG
CHAPTER XX. ENEMIES, SEEN AND UNSEEN
CHAPTER XXI. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
CHAPTER XXII. GROWING UP
CHAPTER XXIII. HEROES
CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION
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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 this at all, it was to see in it an omen of impending tragedy. Red was the color of blood, and he foresaw that blood must flow, and freely.
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Having said this, and still carrying the burning fagot, he walked to the closed tepee of his widowed sister and lifted its door flap. Stooping his tall head till its feathered crest swept the floor he entered the spacious lodge. But he sniffed with contempt at the stifling atmosphere within, and laying down his torch raised the other half of the entrance curtain.
At the back of the wigwam, crouching in the attitude she had sustained almost constantly since her bereavement, sat the Woman-Who-Mourns. She did not lift her head, or give any sign of welcome till the chief had crossed to her side, and in a tone of command bade her:
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