Transcriber’s Note

The text is given here as printed with the exception of several minor errors, which have been corrected and are noted in the End Notes. French titles are general printed without accents, and are retained as such.

The Story of Tonty

BY

MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD

Illustrated

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY
1890
Copyright,
By A. C. McClurg and Co.
A.D. 1889.

Page
[Introduction]7
Book I.
A MONTREAL BEAVER FAIR.
I.[Frontenac]11
II.[Hand-of-Iron]20
III.[Father Hennepin]28
IV.[A Council]39
V.[Sainte Jeanne]48
VI.[The Prophecy of Jolycœur]57
Book II.
FORT FRONTENAC.
I.[Rival Masters]71
II.[A Travelled Friar]81
III.[Heaven and Earth]87
IV.[A Canoe from the Illinois]96
V.[Father Hennepin’s Chapel]109
VI.[La Salle and Tonty]118
VII.[An Adoption]128
VIII.[Tegahkouita]136
IX.[An Ordeal]146
X.[Hemlock]155
Book III.
FORT ST. LOUIS OF THE ILLINOIS.
I.[In an Eagle’s Nest]167
II.[The Friend and Brother]176
III.[Half-Silence]188
IV.[A Fête on the Rock]200
V.[The Undespairing Norman]210
VI.[To-Day]224