224
CHAPTER XVI 241
CHAPTER XVII 254
CHAPTER XVIII 263
CHAPTER XIX 273
CHAPTER XX 285
CHAPTER XXI 305
CHAPTER XXII 318
CHAPTER XXIII 326
CHAPTER XXIV 341
CHAPTER XXV 347
CHAPTER XXVI 377
CHAPTER XXVII 401
L'envoi 421

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

She stood still, amazed _Frontispiece_

PAGE

As they struck, he called out, "Yvonne!" 13

With a quick movement she threw the big stallion in
front of Ca Ira 69

"Well played!" cried Schmidt--"the jest and the rapier" 113

"Thou canst not shoe my conscience" 153

Rene struggled in Schmidt's arms, wild with rage 247

She threw the fairy tissue about Pearl's head, smiling
as she considered the effect 289

"I know, I know, but--" 337

"Then I beg to resign my position" 367

"Not to-day, children, not to-day" 409

THE RED CITY

THE RED CITY

A NOVEL OF THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF WASHINGTON

I.

About five in the afternoon on the 23d of May, 1792, the brig _Morning
Star_ of Bristol, John Maynard, master, with a topgallant breeze after
her, ran into Delaware Bay in mid-channel between Cape May and Cape
Henlopen. Here was the only sunshine they had seen in three weeks. The
captain, liking the warmth on his broad back, glanced up approvingly at
mast and rigging. "She's a good one," he said, and noting the ship
powdered white with her salt record of the sea's attentions,