BY
ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SMITH
Author of
"Spears of Destiny," "The Audacious
Adventures of Miles McConaughy,"
"The Wastrel," etc.
NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
Publishers
COPYRIGHT 1922, BY
BRENTANO'S
COPYRIGHT 1921, BY
THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I The Fray in Mincing Lane
II Small Talk and Mulled Ale
III Before the Lords of Trade
IV Five Berths on the New Venture
V The Fifth Passenger
VI The Opening of Hostilities
VII A Truce
VIII I Hear First of the Doom Trail
IX The Governor in Council
X The Red Death
XI Ta-Wan-Ne-Ars Understands
XII Into the Wilderness
XIII The Trailers
XIV Along the Great Trail
XV Joncaire is Hospitable
XVI Trapped
XVII La Vierge Du Bois
XVIII The Mistress of the False Faces
XIX The Moon Feast
XX The Argosy of Furs
XXI A Scout of Three
XXII Red Death and Black Death
XXIII Governor Burnet is Defied
XXIV An Appeal to the Long House
XXV The Council of the Roy-an-ehs
XXVI The Evil Wood
XXVII Ga-Ha-No's Sacrifice
XXVIII The Might at the Long House
XXIX The Barring of the Doom Trail
XXX Pearl Street to Hudson's River
O my reader, rest a while at our Council Fire before you set yourfeet upon the long trail which leads into the dim regions of Ta-de,which is—or was—Yesterday.
See, we will sprinkle tobacco leaves upon the flames and on thespirals of the smoke ascending upward our words shall be carried tothe ears of Ha-wen-ne-yu, the Great Spirit.
Behold, O my reader, we give you a White Belt in token that ourwords are straight.
That which has been is no more. We of the Ho-de-no-san-nee, thePeople of the Long House, are scattered so that only Ga-oh, the OldMan of the Winds, can tell where the remnants dwell. The LongHouse, where our women sowed and reaped and our wa