MATILDA MONTGOMERIE;
OR,
THE PROPHECY FULFILLED.
A TALE OF THE LATE AMERICAN WAR.
BEING THE SEQUEL TO WACOUSTA.
By MAJOR RICHARDSON,
AUTHOR OF "WACOUSTA," "HARDSCRABBLE," "ECARTE," ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK:
POLLARD & MOSS,
42 Park Place and 37 Barclay Street.
1888.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
ADVERTISEMENTS
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
CHAPTER I.
At the northern extremity of the small town which bears its namesituated at the head of Lake Erie, stands, or rather stood—for the fortificationsthen existing were subsequently destroyed—the small fortress of Malden.
Few places in America, or in the world, could, at the period embraced byour narrative, have offered more delightful associations than that which wehave selected for an opening scene. Amherstburg was at that time one of theloveliest spots that ever issued from the will of a beneficent and gorgeousnature, and were the world-disgusted wanderer to have selected a home inwhich to lose all memory of conventional and artificial forms, his choice wouldassuredly have fallen here. And insensible, indeed, to the bea