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THE SUN MAID

A STORY OF FORT DEARBORN

BY

EVELYN RAYMOND

AUTHOR OF “THE LITTLE LADY OF THE HORSE,” ETC.

FORT DEARBORN

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

31 West Twenty-third St.

Copyright, 1900

BY

E. P. DUTTON & CO.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

Page 22. KITTY AND THE SNAKE. Frontispiece.

TO ALL YOUNG HEARTS
IN THAT FAIR CITY BY THE INLAND SEA

CHICAGO

PREFACE.

In some measure, the story of the Sun Maid is an allegory.

Both the heroine and the city of her love grew from insignificantbeginnings; the one into a type of broadest womanhood, the other intoa grandeur which has made it unique among the cities of the world.

Discouragements, sorrows, and seeming ruin but developed in each thesame high attributes of courage, indomitable will power, andfar-reaching sympathy. The story of the youth of either would be atale unfinished; and those who have followed, with any degree ofinterest, the fortunes of either during any period will keep thatinterest to the end.

There are things which never age. Such was the heart of the Maid whoremained glad as a girl to the end of her century, and such themarvellous Chicago with a century rounded glory which is still theglory of a youth whose future magnificence no man can estimate.

E. R., Baltimore, January, 1900.

CONTENTS.