XXIV In France with Franklin
XXV The Pageant
XXVI In Which Appears the Horse of Destiny and
the Judas of Washington's Army
XXVII Which Contains the Adventures of Solomon
in the Timber Sack and on the "Hand-made River"
XXVIII In Which Arnold and Henry Thornhill Arrive
in the Highlands
XXIX Love and Treason
XXX "Who Is She that Looketh Forth as the
Morning, Fair as the Moon, Clear as the Sun,
and Terrible as an Army with Banners?"
XXXI The Lovers and Solomon's Last Fight





BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I

THE HORSE VALLEY ADVENTURE

"The first time I saw the boy, Jack Irons, he was about nine years old.
I was in Sir William Johnson's camp of magnificent Mohawk warriors at
Albany. Jack was so active and successful in the games, between the
red boys and the white, that the Indians called him 'Boiling Water.'
His laugh and tireless spirit reminded me of a mountain brook. There
was no lad, near his age, who could run so fast, or jump so far, or