The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Sun Maid, by Evelyn Raymond

Title: The Sun Maid

A Story of Fort Dearborn

Author: Evelyn Raymond

Release Date: June 16, 2010 [eBook #32843]

Language: English

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THE SUN MAID

A STORY OF FORT DEARBORN

BY

EVELYN RAYMOND

AUTHOR OF “THE LITTLE LADY OF THE HORSE,” ETC.

FORT DEARBORN

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

31 West Twenty-third St.

Copyright, 1900

BY

E. P. DUTTON & CO.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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.