Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE LASS OF THE SILVER SWORD

BY
MARY CONSTANCE DU BOIS
Author of “Elinor Arden, Royalist,” etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES M. RELYEA

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1908, 1909, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published September, 1909_

Printed in U. S. A.

TO
GRACE WINIFRED
AND
CECILY JEAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Girl with Ideals 3
II. At Home in the Orioles’ Nest 14
III. A Tornado 31
IV. Castle Afterglow 42
V. The Queen of the Silver Sword 59
VI. Camp Huairarwee 72
VII. How the Queen Saved a Halcyon’s Life 83
VIII. Douglas Gordon 91
IX. Jasper Brook 107
X. The Trail to the North Pole 116
XI. Mermaids 132
XII. A Damsel in Distress 143
XIII. Philanthropists 156
XIV. The Camp Baby 173
XV. A Midsummer Day’s Dream 188
XVI. The Battle Maid 201
XVII. Forest and Fire 214
XVIII. Cinderella 226
XIX. The Hemlock and the Hist-oh-Hist 245
XX. Conspirators 268
XXI. The Runaway 281
XXII. Up the Gothics 292
XXIII. Down the Slides 306
XXIV. Life or Death 321
XXV. The Vigil Ended 329
XXVI. A “Stoot Hert” and a “Stey Brae” 337
XXVII. A Coronation 357

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Initiation Ceremony of “The Silver Sword” _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
Camp Huairarwee 84
As If In Answer the “Hist” Shot Forward 262
Gazing With Admiration at the Silver Circlet 370

THE LASS OF THE
SILVER SWORD

THE LASS OF THE
SILVER SWORD