E-text prepared by D Alexander and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32843-h.htm or 32843-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32843/pg32843-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32843/32843-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/sunmaidstoryoffo00raym THE SUN MAID A Story of Fort Dearborn by EVELYN RAYMOND Author of "The Little Lady of the Horse," Etc. New York E. P. Dutton & Company 31 West Twenty-Third St. Copyright, 1900 By E. P. Dutton & Co. The Knickerbocker Press, New York [Illustration: _Page 22._ KITTY AND THE SNAKE. _Frontispiece._] TO ALL YOUNG HEARTS IN THAT FAIR CITY BY THE INLAND SEA CHICAGO PREFACE. In some measure, the story of the Sun Maid is an allegory. Both the heroine and the city of her love grew from insignificant beginnings; the one into a type of broadest womanhood, the other into a grandeur which has made it unique among the cities of the world. Discouragements, sorrows, and seeming ruin but developed in each the same high attributes of courage, indomitable will power, and far-reaching sympathy. The story of the youth of either would be a tale unfinished; and those who have followed, with any degree of interest, the fortunes of either during any period will keep that interest to the end. There are things which never age. Such was the heart of the Maid who remained glad as a girl to the end of her century, and such the marvellous Chicago with a century rounded glory which is still the glory of a youth whose future magnificence no man can estimate. E. R., BALTIMORE, January, 1900. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN 1 II. TWO FOR BREAKFAST 13 III. IN INDIAN ATTIRE 27 IV. THE WHITE BOW 38 V. HORSES: WHITE AND BLACK 50 VI. THE THREE GIFTS 64 VII. A THREEFOLD CORD IS STRONGEST 77 VIII. AN ISLAND RETREAT 91 IX. AT MUCK-OTEY-POKEE 107 X. THE CAVE OF REFUGE 124 XI. UNDER A WHITE MAN'S ROOF 138 XII. AFTER FOUR YEARS 156 XIII. THE HARVESTING 169 XIV. ONCE MORE IN THE OLD HOME 180 XV. PARTINGS AND MEETINGS 194 XVI. THE SHUT AND THE OPEN DOOR 209