E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28958-h.htm or 28958-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28958/pg28958-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28958/28958-h.zip) THE ROAD TO FRONTENAC [Illustration: "Half way down the steps was a double file of Indians chained two and two."] THE ROAD TO FRONTENAC by SAMUEL MERWIN New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1901 Copyright, 1901, by Frank Leslie Publishing House. Copyright, 1901, by Doubleday, Page & Company. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Captain Menard Has a Lazy Day. 1 II. The Maid. 19 III. Mademoiselle Eats Her Breakfast. 38 IV. The Long Arrow. 61 V. Danton Breaks Out. 83 VI. The Fight at La Gallette. 103 VII. A Compliment for Menard. 127 VIII. The Maid Makes New Friends. 147 IX. The Word of an Onondaga. 169 X. A Night Council. 191 XI. The Big Throat Speaks. 212 XII. The Long House. 235 XIII. The Voice of the Great Mountain. 254 XIV. Where the Dead Sit. 272 XV. The Bad Doctor. 293 XVI. At the Long Lake. 314 XVII. Northward. 337 XVIII. The Only Way. 359 XIX. Frontenac. 383 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "Half way down the steps was a double file of Indians chained two and two." _Frontispiece_ "Sitting on a bundle was, a girl, perhaps eighteen or nineteen years old." 36 "The Indians walked silently to the fire." 64 "Menard stood ... smiling with the same look of scorn he had worn ... when they led him to the torture." 256 THE ROAD TO FRONTENAC. CHAPTER I CAPTAIN MENARD HAS A LAZY DAY.