T.

I. Quebec in 1775-76
II. Cary's Message
III. The Unremembered Brave
IV. Practical Love
V. Zulma and Batoche
VI. The Ball at the Castle
VII. The Attack of the Masks
VIII. Unconscious Greatness
IX. Pauline's Development
X. On the Citadel
XI. Horseman and Amazon
XII. Was it Design or Accident?
XIII. The Intendant's Palace
XIV. Little Blanche
XV. In Batoche's Cabin
XVI. A Painful Meeting
XVII. Nisi Dominus
XVIII. Last Days
XIX. Pres-de-Ville
XX. Sault-au-Matelot

BOOK IV.

AFTER THE STORM.

I. The Confessional
II. Blanche's Prophecy
III. The Prophecy Fulfilled
IV. Days of Suspense
V. The Invalid
VI. The Saving Stroke
VII. Donald's Fate
VIII. The Burdened Heart
IX. Ebb and Flow
X. On the Brink
XI. In the Vale of the Shadow of Death
XII. In the Fiery Furnace
XIII. Roderick's Last Battle
XIV. At Valcartier
XV. Friendship Stronger than Love
XVI. The Hour of Gloom
XVII. The Great Retreat
XVIII. Consummatum Est
XIX. Final Quintet

THE BASTONNAIS

BOOK I. THE GATHERING OF THE STORM.

I.

BLUE LIGHTS.

He stood leaning heavily on his carbine. High on his lonely perch, he
slowly promenaded his eye over the dusk landscape spread out before him.
It was the hour of midnight and a faint star-light barely outlined the
salient features of the scenery. Behind him wound the valley of the St.
Charles black with the shadows of pine and tamarac. Before him rose the
crags of Levis, and beyond were the level stretches of the Beauce. To
his left the waterfall of Montmorenci boomed and glistened. To his right
lay silent and deserted the Plains of Abraham, over which a vapor of
sanguine glory seemed to hover. Directly under him slept the ancient
city of Champlain. A few lights were visible in the Chateau of St Louis
where the Civil Governor resided, and in the guard-rooms of the Jesuit
barracks on Cathedral-square, but the rest of the capital was wrapped in
the solitude of gloom. Not a sound was heard in the narrow streets and
tortuous defiles of Lower Town. A solitary lamp swung from the bows of
the war-sloop in the river.

He stood leaning heavily on his carbine. To have judged merely from his
attitude, one would have said that he was doing soldier's duty with only
a mechanical vigilance. But such was not the case. Never was sentry set
upon watch of heavier responsibility, and never was watch ke