THE WARD OF TECUMSEH _By CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT_ SALLY CASTLETON, SOUTHERNER _Six Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. $1.25 net._ “A swiftly moving, entertaining tale of love and daring secret service work.” --_Chicago Record Herald_ OUT OF RUSSIA _Illustrated by Frank McKernan. $1.25 net._ “There is everything that goes to make up a story wholesomely exciting.” --_The Continent, Chicago_ THE ISLE OF DEAD SHIPS _Illustrated by Frank McKernan. $1.00 net._ “Chapter after chapter unfolds new and startling adventures.” --_Philadelphia Press_ J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA [Illustration: ALAGWA COMES TO THE COUNCIL FIRE _Page 304_] THE WARD OF TECUMSEH BY CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT AUTHOR OF “SALLY CASTLETON, SOUTHERNER,” “THE ISLE OF DEAD SHIPS,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK McKERNAN [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1914 PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE ALAGWA COMES TO THE COUNCIL FIRE _Frontispiece_ ALAGWA, BEING WOUNDED, IS RESCUED BY JACK TELFAIR 80 ALAGWA SHOOTS CAPTAIN BRITO 194 JACK TELFAIR AND CAPTAIN BRITO SETTLE THEIR DISPUTE 330 THE WARD OF TECUMSEH CHAPTER I WHEN the beautiful Sally Habersham accepted Dick Ogilvie her girl associates rejoiced quite as much as she did, foreseeing the return to their orbits of sundry temporarily diverted masculine satellites. Her mother’s friends did not exactly rejoice, for Dick Ogilvie had been a great “catch” and his capture was a sad loss, but they certainly sighed with relief; for they had always felt that Sally Habersham was altogether too charming to be left at large. About the only mourners were a score or so of young men, whose hearts sank like lead when they heard the news. The young men took the blow variedly, each according to his nature. One or two made such a vehement pretense of not caring that everybody decided that they cared a great deal; two or three laughed at themselves in the vain hope of preventing other people from laughing at them; several got very drunk, as a gentleman might do without disgrace in that year of 1812; others hurriedly set off to join the army of thirty-five thousand men that Congress had just authorized in preparation for the coming war with Great Britain; the rest stayed home and moped, unable to tear themselves away from the scene of their discomfiture.