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[Book Cover: Ticonderoga By G. P. R. JAMES]





[Illustration By J. Watson Davis:
As a tall dark figure gilded into the room, Lord H---- drew Edith
suddenly back and placed himself before her. Page 99.
_Frontispiece_.                                 --_Ticonderoga_]

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_A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley_

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_By G. P. R. JAMES_


_Author of "Darnley, A Romance of the times

of Henry VIII."; "Richelieu, A Tale of

France in the Reign of King Louis XIII_."



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A. L. BURT COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

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TICONDEROGA




CHAPTER I


The house was a neat, though a lowly one. It bore traces of newness,
for the bark on the trunks which supported the little veranda had not
yet mouldered away. Nevertheless, it was not built by the owner's own
hands; for when he came there he had much to learn in the rougher arts
of life; but with a carpenter from a village some nine miles off, he
had aided to raise the building and directed the construction by his
own taste. The result was satisfactory to him; and, what was more, in
his eyes, was satisfactory to the two whom he loved best--at least, it
seemed satisfactory to them, although those who knew them, even not so
well as he did, might have doubted, and yet loved them