List of Illustrations

[ "We'll make it, Peter," she whispered. . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "I've come to tell you things, Nada. I've been living a lie." ]

[ They hurried to the camp, the children racing ahead to tell the news. ]

[ "—a squaw named Yellow Bird sent word that you would be welcome." ]

A glass of wine once lost a kingdom, a nail turned the tide of a mighty battle, and a woman's smile once upon a time destroyed the homes of a million people. Thus have trivial things played their potent parts in the history of human lives; yet these things Peter did not know.