wed it, led by the landed gentry of Tryon
County, and ends with the first solid blow delivered at the Long House,
and the terrible punishment of the Great Confederacy.

The present romance, the fourth in chronological order, picks up the
thread at that point.

The author is not conscious of having taken any liberties with history
in preparing a framework of facts for a mantle of romance.

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.

NEW YORK, _May 26, 1904_.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--THE SPY 1

II.--THE HOUSEHOLD 24

III.--THE COQ D'OR 44

IV.--SUNSET AND DARK 67

V.--THE ARTILLERY BALL 97

VI.--A NIGHT AND A MORNING 127

VII.--THE BLUE FOX 164

VIII.--DESTINY 188

IX.--INTO THE NORTH 212

X.--SERMONS IN STONES 239

XI.--THE TEST 266

XII.--THENDARA 289

XIII.--THENDARA NO MORE 313

XIV.--THE BATTLE OF JOHNSTOWN 336

XV.--BUTLER'S FORD 366

TO MY FRIEND

J. HAMBLEN SEARS

WHOSE UNSELFISH FRIENDSHIP AND SOUND ADVICE

I ACKNOWLEDGE IN THIS

DEDICATION

I

_His muscle to the ax and plow,
His calm eye to the rifle sight,
Or at his country's beck and bow,
Setting the fiery cross alight,
Or, in the city's pageantry,
Serving the Cause in secrecy,--
Behold him now, haranguing kings
While through the shallow court there rings
The light laugh of the courtezan;
This the New Yorker, this the Man!_

II

_Standing upon his blackened land,
He saw the flames mount up to God,
He saw the death tracks in the sand,
And the dead children on the sod,
He saw the half-charred door, unbarred,
The dying hound he left on guard,
And that still thing he once had wed
Sprawled on the threshold dripping red:
Dry-eyed he primed his rifle pan;
This the New Yorker, this the Man!_

III

He plowed the graveyard of his dead