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GARAY A French spy ALFRED GROSVENOR A young English officer JAMES CABELL A young Virginian WALTER STUART A young Virginian BLACK RIFLE A famous "Indian fighter" ELIHU STRONG A Massachusetts colonel ALAN HERVEY A New York financier STUART WHYTE Captain of the British sloop, _Hawk_ JOHN LATHAM Lieutenant of the British sloop, _Hawk_ EDWARD CHARTERIS A young officer of the Royal Americans ZEBEDEE CRANE A young scout and forest runner ROBERT ROGERS Famous Captain of American Rangers CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE HERALDS OF PERIL 1 II. THE KINDLY BRIDGE 22 III. THE FLIGHT 42 IV. A FOREST CONCERT 64 V. GATHERING FORCES 88 VI. THE DARK STRANGER 112 VII. ON THE GREAT TRAIL 136 VIII. ARESKOUI'S FAVOR 154 IX. ON ANDIATAROCTE 178 X. THE NAVAL COMBAT 198 XI. THE COMRADES 220 XII. THE SINISTER SIEGE 243 XIII. TANDAKORA'S GRASP 268 XIV. SHARP SWORD 289 XV. THE LAKE BATTLE 312 _The_ RULERS OF THE LAKES _A STORY OF GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN_ CHAPTER I THE HERALDS OF PERIL The three, the white youth, the red youth, and the white man, lay deep in the forest, watching the fire that burned on a low hill to the west, where black figures flitted now and then before the flame. They did not stir or speak for a long time, because a great horror was upon them. They had seen an army destroyed a few days before by a savage but invisible foe. They had heard continually for hours the fierce triumphant yells of the warriors and they had seen the soldiers dropping by hundreds, but the woods and thickets had hid the foe who sent forth such a rain of death. Robert Lennox could not yet stop the quiver of his nerves when he recalled the spectacle, and Willet, the hunter, hardened though he was to war, shuddered in spite of himself at the memory of that terrible battle in the leafy wilderness. Nor was
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