A DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST
by
EVELYN RAYMOND
Author of "A Yankee Girl" etc.
Illustrated by Ida Waugh
The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia MCMII
Copyright 1902 by The Penn Publishing Company
Published August 15, 1902
A Daughter of the Forest
[Illustration: THE GIRL KNELT, INDIAN FASHION]
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
I THE STORM 5
II SPIRIT OR MORTAL 15
III AN ESTRAY FROM CIVILIZATION 27
IV WHAT WAS IN THE NAME 40
V IN ALADDIN LAND 53
VI A ONE-SIDED STORY 67
VII A WOODLAND MENAGERIE 78
VIII KING MADOC 84
IX PERPLEXITIES 96
X DEPARTURE 109
XI A DISCLOSURE 120
XII CARRYING 134
XIII A DEAD WATER TRAGEDY 146
XIV SHOOTING THE RAPIDS 157
XV SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION 172
XVI DIVERGING ROADS 188
XVII IN THE HOUR OF DARKNESS 201
XVIII THE LETTER 212
XIX A QUESTION OF APPAREL 226
XX COMING AND GOING 241
XXI IN THE GREAT RAILWAY STATION 259
XXII NUMBER 526 272
XXIII FATHER AND SON 283
XXIV A HIDDEN SAFE DEPOSIT 302
XXV THE MELODY AND MYSTERY OF LIFE 319
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
- 2: Angelique wiped her face with her apron
- 3: Make everything ready against I bring Margot in
- 4: Angelique stood up and rubbed her limbs
- 5: Between him and old Angelique was a grudge of long standing
- 6: Margot looked about her in astonishment
- 7: Who had preceded the others on the path
- 8: But again Angelique interposed
- 9: And Margot clasped them firmly
- 10: Then a cup of coffee may be better than the stew
- 11: Margot sprang up and stared at the floundering mass of legs
- 12: And Margot was quick to understand them
- 13: Maybe Pierre can carry a message
- 14: CHAPTER VIN ALADDIN LAND It seemed to Margot
- 15: And to morrow Angelique will fix you better quarters
- 16: There were heaps of delicate biscuits
- 17: Angelique flashed a glance toward the girl
- 18: Somebody was climbing it Margot
- 19: Adrian was different from Pierre
- 20: Though uncle talks of them sometimes
- 21: And for them Margot had her warmest welcome
- 22: But he spent a long time teaching Madoc
- 23: But there Margot perceived that Adrian was not listening
- 24: But while they laughed and Margot listened
- 25: And Adrian followed as swiftly
- 26: So Adrian's answering halloo was prompt
- 27: Madoc sick and Madoc well are different
- 28: But Margot noticed neither her nor Adrian
- 29: And this result was just what Angelique wanted
- 30: It suggested to Margot what I have studiously kept from her
- 31: Your earnings will start you straight again
- 32: That Adrian jumped and nearly upset the boat
- 33: Margot came out of her own room
- 34: Yet that's the same Snowfoot who was to give us no more
- 35: Her squirrels saw and wondered
- 36: Hugh Dutton was the very type of a stalwart woodlander
- 37: Dutton said you were paid to take me to the nearest town
- 38: Adrian did not contest the point
- 39: Pierre had already gone too far in advance
- 40: Had heard that distant Ugh u u ugh
- 41: Adrian laid his hand dramatically upon his stomach
- 42: But Adrian preferred to take no risks
- 43: Pierre plunged forward through the marsh
- 44: Adrian waited no second bidding
- 45: Adrian realized that they were wasting time
- 46: Pierre saw and measured the distance skilfully
- 47: Again Adrian was grateful for his forest experience
- 48: A faint spark resulted and a thistle down caught the spark
- 49: Adrian procured the strips of birch
- 50: Adrian opened his eyes to their widest
- 51: And even upon Adrian the shock was painful
- 52: Adrian repeated the inscription
- 53: But Adrian found cold water preferable to this decoction
- 54: So you shot the poor moose for nothing
- 55: Left from the master's broth Angelique
- 56: Did Angelique believe he ever would
- 57: Margot had never made the passage so swiftly
- 58: Angelique has let even Snowfoot suffer
- 59: But I wish I wish Angelique Ricord
- 60: Angelique brought the things that would be needed and
- 61: Now she watched him and Angelique wonderingly
- 62: Even then Margot did not release her hold
- 63: Angelique heard this strange announcement with incredulity
- 64: But Angelique was a true woman
- 65: And Angelique adjusted the soft
- 66: And Angelique is boxing his ears
- 67: Angelique was too indignant to speak
- 68: A hasty kiss to Angelique who was sobbing herself ill
- 69: Margot immediately requested to be put upon the engine
- 70: It had been toward them he had made such speed
- 71: Margot saw that she had made a serious mistake
- 72: Margot did not understand all this
- 73: But Margot found the matron doing a strange thing
- 74: I guess I guess I haven't any
- 75: Wadislaw heard but did not comprehend what Adrian was saying
- 76: That was Margot woodland Margot who saved my life
- 77: The office of warden is an honorable one and well paid
- 78: This extraordinary dinner must go on
- 79: But Adrian resolved that he would never grace
- 80: The man whom Number 526 tried to kill
- 81: But Adrian anticipated his remark
- 82: But that little shaver Why
- 83: If those stolen bonds but what's the use of recalling them
- 84: But it was not at Adrian she looked
- 85: By that brave little shaver who had once once saved my life
- 86: Though Margot would not move aside even from that
- 87: The circumstantial evidence incorrect
- 88: They are longer than the fifteen years of my ignorance
- 89: The money's found Number 526 quick
- 90: Marshall Illustrated by Ida Waugh Two girls