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قراءة كتاب The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods
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The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods
The MASTERS of the PEAKS
A STORY OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS
BY JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
1918
FOREWORD
"The Masters of the Peaks," while presenting a complete story in itself is the fourth volume of the French and Indian War Series, of which the predecessors were "The Hunters of the Hills," "The Shadow of the North," and "The Rulers of the Lakes." Robert Lennox, Tayoga, Willet, and all the other important characters of the earlier romances reappear in the present book.
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES
CHARACTERS
CHAPTER I: IN THE DEEP WOODS
CHAPTER II: ON THE RIDGES
CHAPTER III: THE BRAVE DEFENSE
CHAPTER IV: THE GODS AT PLAY
CHAPTER V: TAMING A SPY
CHAPTER VI: PUPILS OF THE BEAR
CHAPTER VII: THE SLEEPING SENTINELS
CHAPTER VIII: BEFORE MONTCALM
CHAPTER IX: THE SIGN OF THE BEAR
CHAPTER X: THE FLIGHT OF THE TWO
CHAPTER XI: THE MYSTIC VOYAGE
CHAPTER XII: THE MARVELOUS TRAILER
CHAPTER XIII: READING THE SIGNS
CHAPTER XIV: ST. LUC'S REVENGE
CHARACTERS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES
ROBERT LENNOX: A lad of unknown origin
TAYOGA: A young Onondaga warrior
DAVID WILLET: A hunter
RAYMOND LOUIS DE ST. LUC: A brilliant French officer
AUGUSTE DE COURCELLES: A French officer
FRANÇOIS DE JUMONVILLE: A French officer
LOUIS DE GALISSONNIÈRE: A young French officer
JEAN DE MÉZY: A corrupt Frenchman
ARMAND GLANDELET: A young Frenchman
PIERRE BOUCHER: A bully and bravo
PHILIBERT DROUILLARD: A French priest
THE MARQUIS DUQUESNE: Governor-General of Canada
MARQUIS DE VAUDREUIL: Governor-General of Canada
FRANÇOIS BIGOT: Intendant of Canada
MARQUIS DE MONTCALM: French commander-in-chief
DE LEVIS: A French general
BOURLAMAQUE: A French general
BOUGAINVILLE: A French general
ARMAND DUBOIS: A follower of St. Luc
M. DE CHATILLARD: An old French Seigneur
CHARLES LANGLADE: A French partisan
THE DOVE: The Indian wife of Langlade
TANDAKORA: An Ojibway chief
DAGONOWEDA: A young Mohawk chief
HENDRICK: An old Mohawk chief
BRADDOCK: A British general
ABERCROMBIE: A British general
WOLFE: A British general
COL. WILLIAM JOHNSON: Anglo-American leader
MOLLY BRANT: Col. Wm. Johnson's Indian wife
JOSEPH BRANT: Young brother of Molly Brant, afterward the great Mohawk chief, Thayendanegea
ROBERT DINWIDDIE: Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia
CHARACTERS
WILLIAM SHIRLEY: Governor of Massachusetts
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Famous American patriot
JAMES COLDEN: A young Philadelphia captain
WILLIAM WILTON: A young Philadelphia lieutenant
HUGH CARSON: A young Philadelphia lieutenant
JACOBUS HUYSMAN: An Albany burgher
CATERINA: Jacobus Huysman's cook
ALEXANDER MCLEAN: An Albany schoolmaster
BENJAMIN HARDY: A New York merchant
JOHNATHAN PILLSBURY: Clerk to Benjamin Hardy
ADRIAN VAN ZOON: A New York merchant
THE SLAVER: A nameless rover
ACHILLE GARAY: A French spy
ALFRED GROSVENOR: A young English officer
JAMES CABELL: A young Virginian
WALTER STUART: A young Virginian
BLACK RIFLE: A famous "Indian fighter"
ELIHU STRONG: A Massachusetts colonel
ALAN HERVEY: A New York financier
STUART WHYTE: Captain of the British sloop, Hawk
JOHN LATHAM: Lieutenant of the British sloop, Hawk
EDWARD CHARTERIS: A young officer of the Royal Americans
ZEBEDEE CRANE: A young scout and forest runner
ROBERT ROGERS: Famous Captain of American Rangers
CHAPTER I
IN THE DEEP WOODS
A light wind sang through the foliage, turned to varying and vivid hues now by the touch of autumn, and it had an edge of cold that made Robert Lennox shiver a little, despite a hardy life in wilderness and open. But it was only a passing feeling. A moment or two later he forgot it, and, turning his eyes to the west, watched the vast terraces of blazing color piled one above another by the sinking sun.
Often as he had seen it the wonderful late glow over the mighty forest never failed to stir him, and to make his pulse beat a little faster. His sensitive mind, akin in quality to that of a poet, responded with eagerness and joy to the beauty and majesty of nature. Forgetting danger and the great task they had set for themselves, he watched the banks of color, red and pink, salmon and blue, purple and yellow, shift and change, while in the very heart of the vast panorama the huge, red orb, too strong for human sight, glittered and flamed.
The air, instinct with life, intoxicated him and he became rapt as in a vision. People whom he had met in his few but eventful years passed before him again in all the seeming of reality, and then his spirit leaped into the future, dreaming of the great things he would see, and in which perhaps he would have a share.
Tayoga, the young Onondaga, looked at