Chapter I: Preface

In some measure, the story of the Sun Maid is an allegory.

Both the heroine and the city of her love grew from insignificant beginnings; the one into a type of broadest womanhood, the other into a grandeur which has made it unique among the cities of the world.

Discouragements, sorrows, and seeming ruin but developed in each the same high attributes of courage, indomitable will power, and far-reaching sympathy. The story of the youth of either would be a tale unfinished; and those who have followed, with any degree of interest, the fortunes of either during any period will keep that interest to the end.

There are things which never age. Such was the heart of the Maid who remained glad as a girl to the end of her century, and such the marvellous Chicago with a century rounded glory which is still the glory of a youth whose future magnificence no man can estimate.

E. R., BALTIMORE, January, 1900.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN 1

II. TWO FOR BREAKFAST 13

III. IN INDIAN ATTIRE 27

IV. THE WHITE BOW 38

V. HORSES: WHITE AND BLACK 50

VI. THE THREE GIFTS 64

VII. A THREEFOLD CORD IS STRONGEST 77

VIII. AN ISLAND RETREAT 91

IX. AT MUCK-OTEY-POKEE 107

X. THE CAVE OF REFUGE 124

XI. UNDER A WHITE MAN'S ROOF 138

XII. AFTER FOUR YEARS 156

XIII. THE HARVESTING 169

XIV. ONCE MORE IN THE OLD HOME 180

XV. PARTINGS AND MEETINGS 194

XVI. THE SHUT AND THE OPEN DOOR 209

XVII. A DAY OF HAPPENINGS 231

XVIII. WESTWARD AND EASTWARD OVER THE PRAIRIE 247

XIX. THE CROOKED LOG 260

XX. ENEMIES, SEEN AND UNSEEN 272

XXI. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH 284

XXII. GROWING UP 296

XXIII. HEROES 306

XXIV. CONCLUSION 315

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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FORT DEARBORN _Title-page_

BLACK PARTRIDGE AND THE SUN MAID 6

KITTY AND THE SNAKE _Frontispiece_ 22

THE GIFT OF THE WHITE BOW 48

SNOWBIRD AND THE SUN MAID 68

GASPAR AND KITTY REACH THE FORT 188

"KITTY! MY KITTY!" 258

OSCEOLO AND GASPAR 276

THE SUN MAID.