Produced by Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library at http://digital.lib.niu.edu/) Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), and text enclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * Semi-Monthly Novels Series. No. 214. BEADLE’S DIME NOVELS [Illustration] THE FOREST MONSTER. BEADLE AND COMPANY, 98 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK. Castell & Co., 3 Front St., Brooklyn. * * * * * ROMANCE OF THE WOODS AND LAKES! A most charming story of wildwood life is Beadle’s Dime Novels, No. 215, TO ISSUE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, introducing a favorite writer in a favorite field, viz.: THE WHITE HERMIT: OR, The Unknown Foe. A ROMANCE OF THE LAKES AND WOODS. BY W. J. HAMILTON, AUTHOR OF “THE GIANT CHIEF,” “THE SILENT SLAYER,” ETC. The interest which centers around the early years of settlement, when what is now the lovely region of Central New York was a wilderness of woods, streams, lakes, cataracts and rugged hills, is perennial; and in the fierce Iroquois, the dreaded Six Nations, the half savage white ranger, the colonial trooper, the resolute settler, the true forest women, the romance writer finds almost exhaustless material for the construction of his historic stories. Of the writers in this field of fiction Mr. Hamilton is well known as a master. He gives such pictures of forest life, such clear-cut portraits of forest men, as render his creations intensely interesting and attractive. This last work of his hand is one of impressive merit, and will greatly delight the lovers of forest romances. ☞ For sale by all Newsdealers and Booksellers; or sent, _post-paid_, to any address, on receipt of price--TEN CENTS. =BEADLE AND COMPANY=, Publishers, 98 William Street, New York. * * * * * [Illustration] THE FOREST MONSTER; OR, LAMORA, THE MAID OF THE CANON. A ROMANCE OF THE FAR WEST. BY CHAS. E. LASALLE, AUTHOR OF “BURT BUNKER, TRAPPER,” “THE GREEN RANGER,” “BUFFALO TRAPPER,” ETC. NEW YORK: BEADLE AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 98 WILLIAM STREET. * * * * * Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. (No. 214.) * * * * * THE FOREST MONSTER. CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERIOUS RESCUE. The wind was howling over the prairie, with a sharp, penetrating power, while a few feathery flashes eddying through the air, showed that although it was the season of spring, yet in this elevated region of the Far West, there was scarcely the first premonition of its breath.