Beyond the Frontier

Beyond the Frontier, subtitled A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West, is by Randall Parrish. The contents list names chapters called, among others, "At the Home of Hugo Chevet", "The Choice of a Husband" and "In the Palace of the Intendant". A line of dialogue in the book reads, "You kiss me! Try it, Monsieur, if you doubt how my race repays insult."

The narrator, who says "that was nothing for a girl to understand", keeps "the young Sieur de Artigny" in mind and says "ever since girlhood the memory of him had remained in my thought". The narrator says that a memory "had been kept alive by the very animosity which my uncle cherished against Monsieur de la Salle." The narrator says that with "Frontenac's removal, and the appointment of La Barre as Governor, the hopes of La Salle's enemies revived," and that "Cassion's smooth tongue won him a place as Commissaire." A man called De Artigny asks, "Who has charge of the others?" and La Forest answers, "Bastian Courtray."