A Little Maid of Ticonderoga

arture at the pleasant cabin in the Wilderness. Her father had shot a deer, which meant a good supply of fresh meat. Kashaqua had brought the good news of Faith's arrival at her aunt's hous

ritten, and Faith could not understand it, for she was sure Esther had the beads. She had looked in the box in the sitting-room

Phil?" she questioned, but h

n a canoe when we were down

not repeat what you see, e

what the English soldiers stationed in those northern posts were doing or planning. She was sure that some such messenger had brought her letter; and, while she wondered if it

ll ready when father comes," she said, thinking of all she longed to

aid Aunt Prissy, as she read Mrs. Ca

nt just why she had felt obliged to give them to Esther Eldridge, and how puzzled she was at her mother'

," and Faith was quite sure that Louise would never have accepted the beads or have done

declared suddenly. "What made

sed at this sudden change of sub

e has improved every day since you became her fri

way home from school to teach Louise; and "Flibbertigibbet,"

ing to write. I do wish she would go to school, Aunt Pris

age that she had turned on them violently and they had not dared come near her since. They had vented their spite, however, in calling, "Witch! Witch! Fl

was glad that Louise, when next she appeared at school, would h

ow that she has a girl friend to

the world, and wondered how it was possible for any one to make such beautiful dresses and such dainty white ruffled aprons as these two little girls wore to school. The sisters were very nearly of an a

e years old. But they were far in adva

and this made Faith look at them with even more interest. Both the sisters were rather scornful in their man

weeks; and Faith accepted the invitation with such eagerness that the sisters looked at her approvingly. Their invitati

ending manner, "and we have told our mother about you. Co

good to ask me," Faith had responded gratefully, to the evident satisfaction of the Engl

would call for Faith ea

itation, and was rather puzzled to find that Aunt Prissy seemed a little doubtf

said; but on Faith's declaring that the sisters were the best behaved girls in school, and that she had promised to go, Mrs.

r?" asked Caroline, as th

riends, and looked from one to

nd he owns a fine lot of land

d that is a much better place to live than this old frontier town,"

se, but began telling them of her own journey through the wilderness

t a farmer, isn't

ort Catherine ran to her sister's side and whispered in her ear. After that they kept close together, walking a little way ahead of Faith. At the entrance to the fort Faith was somewhat alarmed to find a tall soldier, musket in hand. But he saluted the little girls, and Faith followed her companions along the narrow passageway. She wondered to herself what she had d

sked, and then looked about half fearful

looked about with anxious eyes, and then decided that her f

ent before. She began running, expecting to see the sisters at every step. Suddenly she found that she was facing a heavy door at the end of the passage, and realized that she had mistaken her way. But Faith was not frighte

nd twist, and to go on and on in an unfamiliar way. It grew more shadowy too. Faith found that she cou

leaning against the damp wall of the passage. "I'll just rest a minu