Copyright, 1903.
By Dodd, Mead and Company.
Published, September, 1903.
BURR PRINTING HOUSE,
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS
- [CHAPTER I—RENÉE DE LONGUEVILLE]
- [CHAPTER II—OLD ST. LOUIS]
- [CHAPTER III—A NEW HOME]
- [CHAPTER IV—THE SOWING OF A THORN]
- [CHAPTER V—WITH A TOUCH OF SORROW]
- [CHAPTER VI—BY THE FIRESIDE]
- [CHAPTER VII—AT THE KING’S BALL]
- [CHAPTER VIII—THE SURPRISE]
- [CHAPTER IX—PRISONERS]
- [CHAPTER X—IN THE WILDERNESS]
- [CHAPTER XI—WAS EVER WELCOME SWEETER]
- [CHAPTER XII—HER ANSWER]
- [CHAPTER XIII—PASSING YEARS]
- [CHAPTER XIV—AT THE BALL]
- [CHAPTER XV—GATHERING THISTLES]
- [CHAPTER XVI—THE RISE IN THE RIVER]
- [CHAPTER XVII—RIVALS]
- [CHAPTER XVIII—A FINE ADJUSTMENT]
- [CHAPTER XIX—THIS WAY AND THAT]
- [CHAPTER XX—WHEN A WOMAN WILL]
- [CHAPTER XXI—FROM ACROSS THE SEA]
- [CHAPTER XXII—A NEW ST. LOUIS]
Cities that have grown from small hamlets seldom keep register of their earlier days, except in the legends handed down in families. St. Louis has the curious anomaly of beginning over several times. For the earliest knowledge of how the little town looked I wish to express my obligations for some old maps and historical points to Mr. Frederick M. Crunden, Public Librarian, Miss Katharine I. Moody, and Colonel David Murphy.
A. M. Douglas.