CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I[Old Friends]1
II[The Chest of Drawers]22
III[The Pursuit of Garay]46
IV[Out To Sea]66
V[Music in the Moonlight]85
VI[The Island]104
VII[The Pirate's Warning]123
VIII[Making the Best of It]142
IX[The Voice in the Air]158
X[The Sloop of War]176
XI[Back To the World]193
XII[The Wilderness Again]217
XIII[The Reunion]238
XIV[Before Quebec]263
XV[The Lone Château]284
XVI[The Reckoning]303


THE SUN OF QUEBEC


CHAPTER I

OLD FRIENDS

Mynheer Jacobus Huysman walked to the window and looked out at the neat red brick houses, the grass, now turning yellow, and the leaves, more brown than green. He was troubled, in truth his heart lay very heavy within him. He was thinking over the terrible news that had come so swiftly, as evil report has a way of doing. But he had cause for satisfaction, too, and recalling it, he turned to gaze once more upon the two lads who, escaping so many perils, had arrived at the shelter of his home.

Robert and Tayoga were thin and worn, their clothing was soiled and torn, but youth was youth and they were forgetting dangers past in a splendid dinner that the fat Caterina was serving for them while Mynheer Jacobus, her master, stood by and saw the good deed well done.