Produced by Carlos Colón, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Small uppercase have been replaced with regular uppercase. Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. [Illustration: She ran out uttering a cry, and turning a dismayed face to us Page 192] THE LAST REBEL BY JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER _Author of "A Knight of Philadelphia," "The Sun of Saratoga," etc._ WITH FRONTISPIECE BY ELENORE PLAISTED ABBOTT [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1900 Copyright, 1898, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. Copyright, 1899, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE AT ODDS WITH THE COMPASS 7 CHAPTER II. ON TRIAL 31 CHAPTER III. AN UNLUCKY SKETCH 56 CHAPTER IV. AMONG THE PEAKS 86 CHAPTER V. A CHANGE OF SITUATIONS 111 CHAPTER VI. AT THE HUT 138 CHAPTER VII. BESIEGERS AND BESIEGED 168 CHAPTER VIII. THE RESULTS OF A SNOW-SLIDE 195 CHAPTER IX. I AM IN FAVOR 215 THE LAST REBEL CHAPTER I. AT ODDS WITH THE COMPASS. East or west, north or south? With all the experience of a man's years and the knowledge of many wise books of travel, I could not tell. I had taken no note of the sun when I left, and, neglected then, it would not serve me now as a guide. To me at that moment all points of the compass were the same.