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Title: Barlasch of the Guard

Author: H. S. Merriman

Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8158]
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Language: English

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BARLASCH OF THE GUARD

By Henry Seton Merriman

"And they that have not heard shall understand"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY
II. A CAMPAIGNER
III. FATE
IV. THE CLOUDED MOON
V. THE WEISSEN ROSS'L
VI. THE SHOEMAKER OF KONIGSBERG
VII. THE WAY OF LOVE
VIII. A VISITATION
IX. THE GOLDEN GUESS
X. IN DEEP WATER
XI. THE WAVE MOVES ON
XII. FROM BORODINO
XIII. IN THE DAY OF REJOICING
XIV. MOSCOW
XV. THE GOAL
XVI. THE FIRST OF THE EBB
XVII. A FORLORN HOPE
XVIII. MISSING
XIX. KOWNO
XX. DESIREE'S CHOICE
XXI. ON THE WARSAW ROAD
XXII. THROUGH THE SHOALS
XXIII. AGAINST THE STREAM
XXIV. MATHILDE CHOOSES
XXV. A DESPATCH
XXVI. ON THE BRIDGE
XXVII. A FLASH OF MEMORY
XXVIII. VILNA
XXIX. THE BARGAIN
XXX. THE FULFILMENT

CHAPTER I. ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY.

Il faut devoir lever les yeux pour regarder ce qu'on aime.

A few children had congregated on the steps of the Marienkirche at
Dantzig, because the door stood open. The verger, old Peter Koch--on
week days a locksmith--had told them that nothing was going to happen;
had been indiscreet enough to bid them go away. So they stayed, for they
were little girls.

A wedding was in point of fact in progress within the towering walls of
the Marienkirche--a cathedral built of red brick in the great days of
the Hanseatic League.

"Who is it?" asked a stout fishwife, stepping over the threshold to
whisper to Peter Koch.

"It is the younger daughter of Antoine Sebastian," replied the verger,
indicating with a nod of his head the house on the left-hand s