GOLD AND GLORY OR, WILD WAYS OF OTHER DAYS A TALE OF EARLY AMERICAN DISCOVERY BY GRACE STEBBING _Author of "Silverdale Rectory," "Only a Tramp," etc._ _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_ New York THOMAS WHITTAKER 2 AND 3, BIBLE HOUSE. INTRODUCTION. Only an apology for having written this historical tale. My private opinion is, that all writers of historical tales should return me thanks if I apologize for them with myself, all in a body, the truer the tale the ampler being the spirit of the apology. While I have been writing this tale, sometimes in its most important or serious portions, I have been startled by detecting my own mouth widening with an absurd smile, or by hearing a ridiculous chuckle issuing from my own lips, and have suddenly discovered that I was quite unconsciously repeating to myself the famous old Scotch anecdote of the old woman and the Scotch preacher--"That's good, and that's Robertson; and that's good, and that's Chalmers; ... and that's bad, and that's himsel'." Turning the old woman into the more learned among my possible readers, and the Scotch preacher into myself, I read the anecdote--"That's good, and that's Prescott; that's good, and that's Robertson; that's good, and that's guide-book; that's good, and that's Arthur Helps; and that's bad, and that's hersel'." I can only wind up my apology by pleading, that at least my badness has not gone the length of distorting a single fact, nor of giving to this wonderful page of history any touch of false colouring. G. S. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. _A POISON-FLY FOR THE HEART OF ARAGON_ CHAPTER II. _CONSPIRATORS_ CHAPTER III. _RIVALS AT DON PHILIP'S HOUSE_ CHAPTER IV. _THINKING OF EXILE_ CHAPTER V. _DEATH FOR ARBUES DE EPILA_ CHAPTER VI. _SANCHO'S BROKEN VICTUALS_ CHAPTER VII. _CONSULTING A SWEET TOOTH_ CHAPTER VIII. _A POWERFUL FRIEND_ CHAPTER IX. _FROM THE NEW PRINTING PRESS_ CHAPTER X. _A JACK IN OFFICE_ CHAPTER XI. _THE FIRST FIND_ CHAPTER XII. _SURGEON TO THE REDSKINS_ CHAPTER XIII. _FOR LIFE OR DEATH_ CHAPTER XIV. _MASTER PEDRO'S DOGS IN DANGER_ CHAPTER XV. _NOISE TO THE RESCUE_ CHAPTER XVI. _I AM 'DON ALONZO'_ CHAPTER XVII. _GOOD OLD DON_ CHAPTER XVIII. _DEATH FOR DON_ CHAPTER XIX. _THE WAY TO TREAT THE REDSKINS_ CHAPTER XX. _THE MASSACRE AT CAONAO_ CHAPTER XXI. _THE PATRIOT CACIQUE HATUEY_ CHAPTER XXII. _ANOTHER STORM FOR THE PILOT ALAMINOS_