310
17. First Love 319
18. The Consul Duilius 325
19. The Abbe Dubois 331
20. The Conspiracy 335
21. The Order of the Honey Bee 338
22. The Queen of the Greenlanders 340
23. The Duc de Richelieu 344
24. Jealousy 348
25. A Pretext 352
26. Counterplots 355
27. The Seventh Heaven 360
28. Fenelon's Successor 363
29. The Prince de Listhnay's Accomplice 368
30. The Fox and Goose 372
31. A Chapter of Saint-Simon 376
32. A Snare 378
33. The Beginning of the End 382
34. Parliamentary Justice 387
35. Man Proposes 391
36. David and Goliath 395
37. The Savior of France 400
38. God Disposes 408
39. A Prime Minister's Memory 412
40. Boniface 416
41. The Three Visits 420
42. The Closet 424
43. The Marriage in Extremis 427
Postscriptum 429

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

7.--He attacked the captain with such fury that their swords engaged at
the hilt.

8.--D'Harmental.

9.--He then returned to his work with all the eagerness of an artist.

10.--The chevalier set Mirza to eat sugar.

11.--Buvat found himself in a sort of laboratory, situated on the
ground-floor.

12.--The body of the captain lay stretched on the floor, swimming in a
sea of blood.

THE CONSPIRATORS;
OR, THE CHEVALIER D'HARMENTAL.

CHAPTER I.

CAPTAIN ROQUEFINETTE.

On the 22d of March, in the year of our Lord 1718, a young cavalier of
high bearing, about twenty-six or twenty-eight years of age, mounted on
a pure-bred Spanish charger, was waiting, toward eight o'clock in the
morning, at that end of the Pont Neuf which abuts on the Quai de
l'Ecole.

He was so upright and firm in his saddle, that one might have imagined
him to be placed there as a sentinel by the Lieut