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Title: A Modern Mercenary

Author: Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

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Language: English

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A MODERN MERCENARY

by

K. AND HESKETH PRICHARD

[E. AND H. HERON]

New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1902

Copyright, 1899, by
Doubleday & McClure Co.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A LIEUTENANT OF FRONTIER CAVALRY 1

II. A GENTLEMAN OF THE GUARD 14

III. THE GENTLEMEN OF THE GUARD 28

IV. DANGER SIGNALS 41

V. GOOD LUCK AND A FIREFLY 48

VI. THE CLOISTER OF ST. ANTHONY 62

VII. ONE WOMAN'S DIPLOMACY 79

VIII. A QUESTION OF THE GUARD 94

IX. THE CASTLE OF SAGAN 106

X. COUNT SIMON OF SAGAN 120

XI. A COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCY 130

XII. ANTHONY UNZIAR 136

XIII. LOVE IN TWO SHADES 144

XIV. HALF A PROMISE 153

XV. COLENDORP 159

XVI. 'WITH YOUR LIPS TO THE HURT' 170

XVII. IRIS 177

XVIII. THE SWORD OF UNZIAR 186

XIX. IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS