Excerpt from Hearts Undaunted: A Romance of Four Frontiers Captain Lytle did not deceive himself. Be fore this day was done his market and source of supplies, and even safety for his family, would have vanished up that blufi-bordered stream. N evertheless, it was a day of ceremony at Fort Pitt, and he a gentleman of the Old Dominion, so he dressed himself with care. Sam shaved his face, tied his brown hair at the nape with a fresh ribbon, and buckled his shoes. Then he considered whether he should wear his good wedding-suit or his shabby old uniform the blue broadcloth coat with scarlet facings and small clothes - of the Virginia Militia. He de cided for the uniform, and set his cooked hat on his head at a defiant angle. As he took his sword and belt down from the wall he remarked to his young wife, with bitter humor, that he was going to Fort Pitt in state to attend the funeral of my fortunes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.