align="left">Launched Into the Unknown

55 CHAPTER V. Civilization's Veneer Rubs Off 70 CHAPTER VI. A Girdle of Agates Recalled 92 CHAPTER VII. The Lords of the North in Council 99 CHAPTER VIII. The Little Statue Animate 118 CHAPTER IX. Decorating a Bit of Statuary 131 CHAPTER X. More Studies in Statuary 144 CHAPTER XI. A Shuffling of Allegiance 163 CHAPTER XII. How a Youth Became a King 181 CHAPTER XIII. The Buffalo Hunt 200 CHAPTER XIV. In Slippery Places 220 CHAPTER XV. The Good White Father 234 CHAPTER XVI. Le Grand Diable Sends Back our Messenger 246 CHAPTER XVII. The Price of Blood 253 CHAPTER XVIII. Laplante and I Renew Acquaintance 266 CHAPTER XIX. Wherein Louis Intrigues 281 CHAPTER XX. Plots and Counter-Plots 297 CHAPTER XXI. Louis Pays Me Back 313 CHAPTER XXII. A Day of Reckoning 327 CHAPTER XXIII. The Iroquois Plays his Last Card 341 CHAPTER XXIV. Fort Douglas Changes Masters 350 CHAPTER XXV. His Lordship to the Rescue 368 CHAPTER XXVI. Father Holland and I in the Toils 378 CHAPTER XXVII. Under One Roof 389 CHAPTER XXVIII. The Last of Louis' Adventures 409 CHAPTER XXIX. The Priest Journeys to a Far Country 433

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LORDS OF THE NORTH

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CHAPTER I

WHEREIN A LAD SEES MAKERS OF HISTORY

"Has any one seen Eric Hamilton?" I asked.

For an hour, or more, I had been lounging about the sitting-room of a club in Quebec City, waiting for my friend, who had promised to join me at dinner that night. I threw aside a news-sheet, which I had exhausted down to minutest advertisements, stretched myself and strolled across to a group of old fur-traders, retired partners of the North-West Company, who were engaged in heated discussion with some officers from the Citadel.

"Has any one seen Eric Hamilton?" I repeated, indifferent to the merits of their dispute.

"That's the