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Title: The Bright Face of Danger
Author: Robert Neilson Stephens
H. C. Edwards
Release Date: November 7, 2009 [EBook #30417]
Language: English
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The Bright Face of Danger
_Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the
Sieur de la Tournoire. Freely Translated into Modern English_
By Robert Neilson Stephens
_Author of_ "An Enemy to the King," "Philip Winwood," "The Mystery of
Murray Davenport," etc.
_Illustrated by_ H. C. Edwards
_Boston_
L. C. Page & Company
_Mdcccciiii_
_Copyright, 1904_
By L. C. Page & Company
_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_
_All rights reserved_
Published April, 1904
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston. Mass., U.S.A.
_THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER is, in a distant way, a sequel to "An
Enemy to the King," but may be read alone, without any reference to
that tale. The title is a phrase of Robert Louis Stevenson's._
_THE AUTHOR._
[Illustration: "'I GIVE YOU ONE CHANCE FOR YOUR LIFE,' SAID I QUICKLY."]
CONTENTS
I. MONSIEUR HENRI DE LAUNAY SETS OUT ON A JOURNEY
II. A YOUNG MAN WHO WENT SINGING
III. WHERE THE LADY WAS
IV. WHO THE LADY WAS
V. THE CHATEAU DE LAVARDIN
VI. WHAT THE PERIL WAS
VII. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES
VIII. MATHILDE
IX. THE WINDING STAIRS
X. MORE THAN MERE PITY
XI. THE RAT-HOLE AND THE WATER-JUG
XII. THE ROPE LADDER
XIII. THE PARTING
XIV. IN THE FOREST
XV. THE TOWER OF MORLON
XVI. THE MERCY OF CAPTAIN FERRAGANT
XVII. THE SWORD OF LA TOURNOIRE
XVIII. THE MOUSTACHES OF BRIGNAN DE BRI
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