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alti Fdli a Noted Maine Auth or ARUNDEL, By Kenneth L. Roberts Doui>leday Doran.

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618 pp.

Reviewed by CHARLE S J. NICHOLS Por&laad Attornq

K.ennefll L. Boberta In the garden of hla Kennebun k Beach home

r ge. tells his .son that they will start to of Liberty to go to, Cam elder. In the meantime the The story begins with a vivid : capture the stranger and bring back had died after he bad saved scene In an ancient hostelry In the Mary. Mr. Hook, a Tory, from drcnnllDg. township of Arundel, now known 1.11 In hot pursuit, they followed Guer- Many from Arundel volunteer ed to Kennebun kport in this State., The lac and his Indians through Fa!- fight for freedom from the oppr.eacharactera in that ,teene, "Cap" Huff, mouth (now Portland) , through 10n of the Mother Country. Phoebe. Steven Nason, Sr., Steven Nason, Jr., Brunswick , Cushnoc and up the Ken- 3 being an expert sailor and "Master" • ftenchma n later known as Guer- nebec, passed Fort Halifax where of a sloop took the volunteer s to his Ji.a, Kaster Malllson, his daughter Guerlac and fierceparty were over- Newburyp ort. took Jlar7, and a few Abenakl, play an ~aken and a Jr., engageme nt deep On reaching Cambridg e, Wa.ahlng. received a lmpo~t part throughou t the entire place. Steven ton and Arnold requested as many n,µ,ratM. Cap Huff, hilarious from gash from the hatchet of the French- ·'Woodme n from Maine" as possible Imbibing liquors of that period, fol- man, while Guerlac himself was dis- to go on the expedition through our lowing a heated argument with the flgured by a slit ear. However, he state to capture Quebec; Cap Huff, Fr,nchma n over the cause and re- continued on his journey to Quebec Steven Nason, Noah Cluff, Jethro suits of the French and Indian Wars, with Mary whom he passes off as his Fish, Asa Hutchlna and James Dunn, throwa the latter out of th<i house sister, while Steven Jr. and his from Arundel, and Paul Hlgglns, Into the mud. G1'erlac departs in father are force<! to return to Arun- all white man who had become a the the darkness and aoon Malllson and del. It was on this return trip, near great sachem among the Indians on his daughter, Mary, approach the Pownalbo rough, that the Nasons, Androscog gin. ·Phoebe Marvin "path where Guerlac with his Indians father and son, first met Master the her sloop, marries J~es D1Ullli sailing a sells are lying in ambush. Ma:Iison ls Benedict Arnold who was and who "the grave and handsome young Q1&1I killed and the daughter Mary Is car- schooner up the Kennebec Arundel" and jo1na the espedi· rled away to Quebec. It 1.s Phoebe tells them of the capture of Quebec from • Marvin, a rollicking country lass, by Wolfe. Their anxiety tor Mary tlon Approxim ately eleven hundred men .seeing the Frenchma n slli,t.ch Mary, Malllson then Increased and Steven under Col Arnold set out...lJy ~ Jr. vows that If even an opportuni ty who spreads the alarm. for Gardlnerto wit:'#lillre lt Steven Nason, Jr., who has a child- comes, he will go to Quebec and porta aece,sary to wait until more ood affection for Mary, and who has bring back Mary. built, the 11<>1$Hera · being .~ at the age of twelve promised to- Nearly sixteen years of waiting ' tered at Fort ta tlie p ~ t marry her, determine s to follow and when the news of the Boston city of A ~- X>urlng tlle, followed recapture hill future wife. Hi.II fa- Massacre reached Arundel, ConeQtCI, days of ~ . 1775, Ule Uier, ever ready to avenge a wrong, quickly by Lexington , in four dlvls an tatperlenc ed hunter, famlllar with Ticondero ga and Bunker Hill, •d leave11' -\Vestem Saba s fo 1 to e Abenakl Indians the frl

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