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Title: My Sword's My Fortune
A Story of Old France

Author: Herbert Hayens

Release Date: November 25, 2008 [EBook #27325]

Language: English

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MY SWORD'S MY FORTUNE

A STORY OF OLD FRANCE

BY

HERBERT HAYENS

LONDON AND GLASGOW

COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

1904

Contents.

Chapter

I. I Go to Paris
II. La Boule d'Or
III. I Enter the Astrologer's House
IV. I Meet the Cardinal
V. The Reception at the Luxembourg
VI. Was I Mistaken?
VII. The Cardinal takes an Evening Walk
VIII. The Plot is Discovered
IX. I Meet with an Exciting Adventure
X. Pillot to the Rescue
XI. A Scheme that Went Amiss
XII. I have a Narrow Escape
XIII. I again Encounter Maubranne
XIV. I Fall into a Trap
XV. Under Watch and Ward
XVI. I become a Prisoner of the Bastille
XVII. Free!
XVIII. The Fight on the Staircase
XIX. I Lose all Trace of Henri
XX. News at Last
XXI. The Death of Henri
XXII. The Mob Rises
XXIII. The Ladies Leave Paris
XXIV. Captain Courcy Outwitted
XXV. I Miss a Grand Opportunity
XXVI. "Vive le Roi!"
XXVII. The King Visits Raoul
XXVIII. "Remember the Porte St. Antoine"
XXIX. Mazarin Triumphant

Illustrations

"The air was filled with the clatter of steel."

"The nobleman caught and fixed him."

"Keep this in remembrance of this day."

[Transcriber's notes:

Gaps in the source book's page numbering indicate that four
illustrations were missing. Physical damage seems to indicate that the
frontispiece may also have been missing. Since there was no list of
illustrations in the book, it is not known what their captions were.
Short transcriber's notes indicate the locations of the missing
illustrations.]

CHAPTER I.

I Go to Paris.

"Let the boy go to Paris," exclaimed our guest, Roland Belloc. "I
warrant he'll find a path that will lead him to fortune