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IN WHICH DE SANCERRE WIELDS HIS SWORD AGAIN The royal cabin was the largest and most pretentious dwelling-house in the City of the Sun. Its walls were made of mud, sand and moss, and, hardened by ti…
IN WHICH THE CITY OF THE SUN ENJOYS A FÊTE The moon of strawberries had been succeeded by the moon of old corn, and there was joy in the land of the sun-worshippers. In other words, the month of Apr…
IN WHICH DE SANCERRE UNDERGOES MANY VARIED EMOTIONS The full moon of May, the moon of old corn, shone down upon a virgin forest bounding with the high pulse of a ripe spring-time. Its white splendor…
IN WHICH SPIRITS, GOOD AND BAD, BESET A WILDERNESS Cabanacte’s wooing of Katonah, an idyl of the forest, a love-poem lost in the wilds, a spring song set to halting words, had filled two simple live…
IN WHICH DE SANCERRE WEEPS AND FIGHTS “ I have searched in all directions,” remarked de Sancerre to Doña Julia, standing upon the river-bank and watching the early sunbeams as they greeted the rippl…
IN WHICH DOÑA JULIA IS REMINDED OF THE PAST It was night; black, oppressively damp, with thunder in the air and fitful lightning zigzagging across the sulky sky. With deep sighs, the forest prepared…
IN WHICH ST. EUSTACE IS KIND TO DE SANCERRE Overlooking the waters of the great river, as they met and mingled with the waves of a lonely sea, stood a wooden column beside a wooden cross. Almost hid…
IN WHICH DE SANCERRE’S ISLAND IS BESIEGED “ Pardieu, Monsieur le Comte , I’ll ne’er forget the scene!” remarked Jacques Barbier, puffing his pipe and lazily watching the smoke as the evening breeze t…
IN WHICH THE GREAT SPIRIT COMES FROM THE SEA TO RECLAIM COYOCOP Coyocop’s prediction was fulfilled at dawn. The year which Doña Julia de Aquilar had passed in the City of the Sun had enabled her to …
