XII. What Happened in the Baie des Chaleurs XIII. Le Pere Jean, Missionary to the Indians XIV. I am Directed into a New Path XV. The Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de St. Veran XVI. At Beaulieu XVII. I Find Myself in a False Position XVIII. I am Rescued from a Great Danger XIX. On the Isle Aux Coudres XX. At Quebec XXI. I Awake from my Dream XXII. I am Tortured by Myself and Others XXIII. The Heights of Quebec XXIV. Reconciliation XXV. A Forlorn Hope PART III MAXWELL'S STORY XXVI. I Close One Account and Open Another XXVII. I Find a Key to my Dilemma XXVIII. I Make a False Move XXIX. I Put my Fortune to the Touch Epilogue ILLUSTRATIONS "'A REBEL WENCH, LADS, AND MUST SEE HER LOVER CLOSE!'" "'THAT IS A LIE!' SHE SAID, CALMLY, RAISING HER FACE" "'WHY DO YOU SLEEP IN YOUR CLOTHES?'" "'OH, YOUR GRACE, YOUR GRACE, HE IS ALL I HAVE LEFT IN THE WORLD!'" "HE ORDERED HIS MEN TO GIVE WAY IN A VOICE THAT SUGGESTED THE CLAP OF A PRISON DOOR" "HOW I MADE THEM LAUGH OVER MY APPEARANCE!" "SHE STOOD ERECT, HER FACE WHITE WITH EMOTION" "'M. LE LIEUTENANT, YOU HAVE MY SINCEREST SYMPATHY!'" "I CRAWLED OUT BRUISED, BUT OTHERWISE UNHURT" "'CHEVALIER, I KNOW YOU NOW'" "AND LAID THEM GENTLY ON THE STREAM" "THE PRIEST RECITED THE HOLY OFFICE OF THE MASS" "'THERE IS LITTLE I WOULD NOT DO TO PLEASE LE PERE JEAN'" "'THESE LETTERS CHANGE A DUTY INTO A PLEASURE'" "THE TWO MEN STOOD FACING EACH OTHER IN SILENCE" "A STRAIGHT PILLAR OF FIRE WENT LEAPING UP INTO THE NIGHT" "HE CARRIED ME THROUGH MUD AND WATER, AND SET ME IN HIS SHALLOP" "AND, BOWING LOW, ANSWERED HER LIVELY GREETING" "TANTUM ERGO SACRAMENTUM VENEREMUR CERNUI" "WE MADE A SAD LITTLE PROCESSION" "'KEEP UP, MY LAD; YOU ARE AMONG FRIENDS!'" "WITH HAT IN HAND CAME SPURRING ON" "'HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH'" "SHE SHORTENED UP STRAPS AND ADJUSTED BUCKLES" "'CALL OFF YOUR MEN, CAPTAIN NAIRN!'" "HE THREW UP HIS HANDS WITH A WEAK CRY AND COVERED HIS FACE" "LIFTING HIS LANTHORN, HE HELD IT SO THAT THE LIGHT SHONE FULL UPON HER" "'I TAKE IT FOR GRANTED YOU ARE A NON-COMBATANT'" "'THE SPAN O' LIFE'S NAE LANG ENEUGH,' ETC." Part I MAXWELL'S STORY "_Better the world should know you at a sinner than God as a hypocrite._"--Old Proverb. THE SPAN O' LIFE CHAPTER I "AFTER HIGH FLOODS COME LOW EBBS" Every one knows of my connection with the ill-starred Rebellion of Prince Charles, and for this it was that I found myself, a few months after the disaster of Culloden, lying close in an obscure lodging in Greek Street, Soho, London.