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Title: The Colonel of the Red Huzzars

Author: John Reed Scott

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THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS

by

JOHN REED SCOTT

With Illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood

[Frontispiece: "You are a soldier--an American officer?"
she said, suddenly.]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers, New York
Copyright 1905 by John Reed Scott
Copyright 1906 by J. B. Lippincott Co.
Published June, 1906

TO MY WIFE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A PICTURE AND A WAGER
II. CONCERNING ANCESTORS
III. IN DORNLITZ AGAIN
IV. THE SALUTE OF A COUSIN
V. THE SALUTE OR A FRIEND
VI. THE SIXTH DANCE
VII. AN EARLY MORNING RIDE
VIII. THE LAWS OF THE DALBERGS
IX. THE DECISION
X. THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS
XI. THE FATALITY OF MOONLIGHT
XII. LEARNING MY TRADE
XIII. IN THE ROYAL BOX
XIV. THE WOMAN IN BLACK
XV. HER WORD AND HER CERTIFICATE
XVI. THE PRINCESS ROYAL SITS AS JUDGE
XVII. PITCH AND TOSS
XVIII. ANOTHER ACT IN THE PLAY
XIX. MY COUSIN, THE DUKE
XX. A TRICK OF FENCE
XXI. THE BAL MASQUE
XXII. BLACK KNAVE AND WHITE
XXIII. AT THE INN OF THE TWISTED PINES
XXIV. THE END OF THE PLAY

ILLUSTRATIONS

"You are a soldier--an American officer?" she said,
suddenly. . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Then, as he unbent, his eyes rested on me for the first time.

Our swords fell to talking in the garden of the masked ball.

THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS

I

A PICTURE AND A WAGER

It was raining he