Category: Historical Novels
On the hill of Beausejour, one April morning in the year 1750 A.D., a little group of French soldiers stood watching, with gestures of anger and alarm, the approach of several small ships across the yellow waters of Chignecto Bay. The ships were flying British colors. Presentl...
The midnight murderers were at the very doors before even a dog gave warning. Then several curs raised a shrill alarm, and a great mastiff, chained to his kennel in the yard of...
10. CHAPTER VIII.The refuge of good wife Lecorbeau, and the children, and "Pierre's little one" was a wooded bit of rising ground which, before the diking-in of the Tantramar marshes, had been a...
3. CHAPTER I.On the hill of Beausejour, one April morning in the year 1750 A.D., a little group of French soldiers stood watching, with gestures of anger and alarm, the approach of several s...
15. CHAPTER V.Ted's exclamations had brought Mrs. Carter to the door in time to hear Will's reply. She was alarmed at the sight of Will's swollen and discolored features; and her alarm made h...
11. CHAPTER I.As long as they could remember, the roaring flow and rippling ebb of the great tides had been the most conspicuous and companionable sounds in the ears of Will and Ted Carter. T...
13. CHAPTER III."You know," began Will, with his head on one side, "in some parts of the world, when they want to make the tide work for them, they use things they call 'warping dikes.' These r...
12. CHAPTER II."Stop that, Mr. Hand!" said Will, quietly. "You mustn't do that, sir. It was never intended _you_ should fall into that trap, sir. It was set for another person altogether. You...
5. CHAPTER III.When it was seen that the English were actually reembarking, a fierce indignation broke out against Le Loutre for the useless cruelty and precipitancy of his action. The French...
7. CHAPTER V."There is little danger of _that_," rejoined Lecorbeau. "The abbe prefers to strike where there is small likelihood of a return blow. There will be as little of peril as there w...
4. CHAPTER II.The ships were a mile from shore, and the shore nearly a league from the doomed village. When that column of smoke and flame rolled up over their beloved church the unhappy Acad...
9. CHAPTER VII.This question which Lecorbeau asked, all Beausejour was asking in an hour or two. That night an Indian, sent from Le Loutre, who was lying in exhaustion at Cobequid, arrived at...
14. CHAPTER IV."Hold on; wait till he gets to work," said Will. "Then, if we catch him in the act, he can't make any excuse, but just take his medicine like a man!"
6. CHAPTER IV.Pierre broke off his laugh in the middle, for at this moment the red lines charged. The deadly volley which rang out along the summit for an instant staggered the assailants; bu...
2. CHAPTER V.1. CHAPTER VIII.