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Title: For The Admiral

Author: W.J. Marx

Release Date: November 8, 2004 [EBook #13979]

Language: English

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FOR THE ADMIRAL

W.J. MARX

_Author of "Scouting for Buller," "The British Legion," etc._

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
PUBLISHERS LONDON

_Printed in 1906_

_Butler and Panner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London_

TO MY WIFE

BUT FOR WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT

THIS STORY WOULD NEVER

HAVE BEEN WRITTEN.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
A PERILOUS RIDE

CHAPTER II
TRACKED, OR NOT?

CHAPTER III
THE FIGHT BY THE WAY

CHAPTER IV
HOW WE KEPT THE FORD

CHAPTER V
A TRAITOR TO THE KING

CHAPTER VI
THE UNKNOWN CAVALIER

CHAPTER VII
A COMMISSION FOR THE ADMIRAL

CHAPTER VIII
THE TRAGEDY OF JARNAC

CHAPTER IX
A GLORIOUS VICTORY

CHAPTER X
I REJOIN THE ADVANCE

CHAPTER XI
A DESPERATE CONFLICT

CHAPTER XII
THE RETURN TO ROCHELLE

CHAPTER XIII
A DARING ENTERPRISE

CHAPTER XIV
SCOUTING FOR COLIGNY

CHAPTER XV
A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH

CHAPTER XVI
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE

CHAPTER XVII
THE KING'S PROMISE

CHAPTER XVIII
A WARNING FROM L'ESTANG

CHAPTER XIX
WHO KILLED THE COURIER?

CHAPTER XX
L'ESTANG'S COURIER

CHAPTER XXI
I SAVE CORDEL'S LIFE

CHAPTER XXII
L'ESTANG TELLS HIS STORY

CHAPTER XXIII
A ROYAL MARRIAGE

CHAPTER XXIV
A MYSTERIOUS WARNING

CHAPTER XXV
A DASTARDLY DEED

CHAPTER XXVI
WHAT WILL THE KING DO?

CHAPTER XXVII
THE DAY OF THE MASSACRE

CHAPTER XXVIII
FAREWELL FRANCE

L'ENVOI

CHAPTER I

A Perilous Ride

"I trust no harm has happened to my father, Jacques. The night grows
late and there are strange rumours afloat. 'Tis said that the Guises are
eager to break the peace."

"Better open warfare than this state of things, monsieur. The peace is
no peace: the king's troops are robbing and slaying as they please.
Francois of the mill told me a pretty tale of