JAMES OTIS
Boston
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1904
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
[I. THE ISLAND]
[II. THE FIRST ASSAULT]
[III. A DAY OF SUSPENSE]
[IV. AN ATTACK]
[V. FIRE]
[VI. THE WRECK]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Friend or enemy? (See Chapter III.) Frontispiece]
["'Indians skulking on the harbor island!'"]
["The stout-hearted girl set about the task"]
["Susan stood guard at the gateway"]
["The children had improvised platforms"]
["Mark saw a canoe put off from the Harbor Island"]
["'You shall not have the smallest chicken inside this stockade!'"]
["'Look! Look! A vessel!'"]
["He returned with a heavy log"]
["'Do you refuse to surrender?'"]
["An instant later the entire party was in retreat"]
["Susan's arm was being rebandaged"]
["He reëntered the house with a bucket two-thirds full of muddy water"]
["Again the crash of thunder drowned all sounds"]
["The next knowledge was that the women were trying to nurse him back to life"]
["He gazed at the struggling wretches on the bottom of the wreck"]