Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan 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.) THE LITTLE RED FOOT BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS AUTHOR OF "THE SLAYER OF SOULS," "THE COMMON LAW," "IN SECRET," "LORRAINE," ETC. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921. BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO MY SON ROBERT H. CHAMBERS CONTENTS I SIR WILLIAM PASSES 11 II TWO PEERS SANS PEERAGE 13 III THE POT BOILS 23 IV TWO COUNTRY MICE 32 V A SUPPER 40 VI RUSTIC GALLANTRY 51 VII BEFORE THE STORM 60 VIII SHEEP AND GOATS 68 IX STOLE AWAY 81 X A NIGHT MARCH 86 XI SUMMER HOUSE POINT 94 XII THE SHAPE IN WHITE 102 XIII THE DROWNED LANDS 113 XIV THE LITTLE RED FOOT 124 XV WEST RIVER 132 XVI A TROUBLED MIND 141 XVII DEEPER TROUBLE 151 XVIII FIRELIGHT 169 XIX OUT OF THE NORTH 177 XX IN SHADOW-LAND 189 XXI THE DEMON 197 XXII HAG-RIDDEN 207 XXIII WINTER AND SPRING 220 XXIV GREEN-COATS 235 XXV BURKE'S TAVERN 253 XXVI ORDERS 267 XXVII FIRE-FLIES 283 XXVIII OYANEH! 292 XXIX THE WOOD OF BRAKABEEN 309 XXX A LONG GOOD-BYE 322 XXXI "IN THE VALLEY" 333 AFTERMATH 350 THE LITTLE RED FOOT CHAPTER I SIR WILLIAM PASSES The day Sir William died there died the greatest American of his day. Because, on that mid-summer evening, His Excellency was still only a Virginia gentleman not yet famous, and best known because of courage and sagacity displayed in that bloody business of Braddock. Indeed, all Americans then living, and who since have become famous, were little celebrated, excepting locally, on the day Sir William Johnson died. Few were known outside a single province; scarcely one among them had been heard of abroad. But Sir William was a world figure; a great constructive genius; the greatest land-owner in North America; a wise magistrate, a victorious soldier, a builder of cities amid a wilderness; a redeemer of men.