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Title: The King's Warrant
A Story of Old and New France

Author: Alfred H. Engelbach

Release Date: December 12, 2008 [EBook #27508]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "'You can tell me where they are,' she said softly, but
very earnestly."]

THE KING'S WARRANT.

A Story of Old and New France

BY

ALFRED H. ENGELBACH,

_Author of_

_"Poor Little Gaspard's Drum," "Lionel's Revenge," "Two Campaigns,"
&c., &c._

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION
APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.;
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.;
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET.
NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

1878

CONTENTS.

PART I.

THE TWO ORPHANS

PART II.

THE LETTRE DE CACHET

PART III.

THE FALL OF NEW FRANCE

ILLUSTRATIONS

LOI
"'You can tell me where they are,' she said softly, but very earnestly."

"The fiery little king of the kitchen bounded from his chair, sprang at
him, and seized him by the throat."

"Flinging away his sword, he knelt beside her."
ELOI

PART I

THE TWO ORPHANS.

[Illustration: Headpiece to Chapter I]

THE KING'S WARRANT.

THE TWO ORPHANS.

CHAPTER I.

At last England and France had formally drawn the sword which they had
sheathed only eight years before at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and
the great struggle known in history as the Seven Years' War had begun
in earnest. Yet although the old countries had until now managed to
abstain from a declared and open rupture in the Old World, it had for
well-nigh two years past been far otherwise with their great
dependencies beyond the Atlantic. There, during the years 1754 and
1755, New France and New England had already been carrying on a deadly
conflict, which seemed to increase in intensity and fierceness as