{"product_id":"2940013358140","title":"Alice of Old Vincennes","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. Under the Cherry Tree\u003cbr\u003e    II. A Letter from Afar\u003cbr\u003e   III. The Rape of the Demijohn\u003cbr\u003e    IV. The First Mayor of Vincennes\u003cbr\u003e     V. Father Gibault\u003cbr\u003e    VI. A Fencing Bout\u003cbr\u003e   VII. The Mayor's Party\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. The Dilemma of Captain Helm\u003cbr\u003e    IX. The Honors of War\u003cbr\u003e     X. M. Roussillon Entertains Colonel Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e    XI. A Sword and a Horse Pistol\u003cbr\u003e   XII. Manon Lescaut, and a Rapier-Thrust\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. A Meeting in the Wilderness\u003cbr\u003e   XIV. A Prisoner of Love\u003cbr\u003e    XV. Virtue in a Locket\u003cbr\u003e   XVI. Father Beret's Old Battle\u003cbr\u003e  XVII. A March through Cold Water\u003cbr\u003e XVIII. A Duel by Moonlight\u003cbr\u003e   XIX. The Attack\u003cbr\u003e    XX. Alice's Flag\u003cbr\u003e   XXI. Some Transactions in Scalps\u003cbr\u003e  XXII. Clark Advises Alice\u003cbr\u003e XXIII. And So It Ended\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice of Old Vincennes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUNDER THE CHERRY TREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUp to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825,\u003cbr\u003ethere stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on\u003cbr\u003ethe Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry\u003cbr\u003etree, known as the Roussillon tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon,\u003cbr\u003eas the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore\u003cbr\u003efruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of\u003cbr\u003ecolor. The exact spot where this noble old seedling from la belle\u003cbr\u003eFrance flourished, declined, and died cannot be certainly pointed out;\u003cbr\u003efor in the rapid and happy growth of Vincennes many land-marks once\u003cbr\u003enotable, among them le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, have been\u003cbr\u003edestroyed and the spots where they stood, once familiar to every eye in\u003cbr\u003eold Vincennes, are now lost in the pleasant confusion of the new town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe security of certain land titles may have largely depended upon the\u003cbr\u003edisappearance of old, fixed objects here and there. Early records were\u003cbr\u003eloosely kept, indeed, scarcely kept at all; many were destroyed by\u003cbr\u003edesigning land speculators, while those most carefully preserved often\u003cbr\u003efailed to give even a shadowy trace of the actual boundaries of the\u003cbr\u003eestates held thereby; so that the position of a house or tree not\u003cbr\u003einfrequently settled an important question of property rights left open\u003cbr\u003eby a primitive deed. At all events the Roussillon cherry tree\u003cbr\u003edisappeared long ago, nobody living knows how, and with it also\u003cbr\u003evanished, quite as mysteriously, all traces of the once important\u003cbr\u003eRoussillon estate. Not a record of the name even can be found, it is\u003cbr\u003esaid, in church or county books.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082688151792,"sku":"2940013358140","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013358140_p0.jpg?v=1763580183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013358140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}