Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "’BIG FATHER—SEND FOR LITTLE HAL—HAL SEE THE RISING SUN’" See page 250] *The Squaw Man* *A Novel* *By Julie Opp Faversham* *Adapted from the Play by Edwin Milton Royle* New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers Copyright, 1906, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ Published December, 1906. TO WILLIAM FAVERSHAM *ILLUSTRATIONS* "THE SQUAW MAN" . . . Cover Inlay "’BIG FATHER—SEND FOR LITTLE HAL—HAL SEE THE RISING SUN’" . . . Frontispiece "ALMOST AS ONE MAN THEY THRUST THEIR REVOLVERS INTO BUD’S FACE" "SHE DREW HERSELF UP CLOSE TO HIM, AND SAID ’ME KILL ’UM’" "’YES, DIANA. MY BOY—MY SON’" _The illustrations in this book are reproduced from photographs of scenes in the play, made by Hall’s Studio, New York; the cover inlay by Morrison, Chicago._ *HOME* *THE SQUAW MAN* *CHAPTER I* It was Jim’s last day at home. He stood in the centre of the fragrant garden and watched the glory of color suffusing the Surrey hills towards the west. With a sigh he turned away and walked to the house. "Where’s Diana?" he called, as he came from the garden through the casement-window of the library. "Diana—why, she’s in bed an hour ago, I should hope," replied his aunt, Lady Elizabeth Kerhill. "She and Mabel went with Bates to see the decorations and then said good-night. Surely you didn’t expect me to allow the children to stay up for the ball?" Mabel was her daughter; Diana Marjoribanks was a young girl of thirteen, who had come to visit her. "Poor imps! they were so excited all day, and followed me about the gun-room where I was doing some packing. They wanted me to coax you to allow them to see the ball, and the tenantry welcome Henry to-night." Lady Kerhill elevated her eyebrows in questioning amazement at Jim, as she nervously twisted the lace of her gown, and with an impatient gesture motioned the subject aside. She was a tall, angular woman, with a profile like the head on a bronze coin; there was a suggestion of the eagle in her personality, and by her friends she was likened to the famous Sarah Churchill, the first Duchess of Marlborough.