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Title: The Count's Chauffeur

Author: William Le Queux

Release Date: January 1, 2010 [EBook #30827]

Language: English

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NASH'S SUMMER LIBRARY
OF POPULAR NOVELS

NO. 1. THE COUNT'S CHAUFFEUR

_Copyright in the United States of America
by William Le Queux, 1907._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. A MOVE ON THE "FORTY" 1

II. A SENTIMENTAL SWINDLE 21

III. THE STORY OF A SECRET 43

IV. A RUN WITH ROSALIE 66

V. THE SIX NEW NOVELS 86

VI. THE GENTLEMAN FROM LONDON 109

VII. THE LADY OF THE GREAT NORTH ROAD 132

VIII. THE RED ROOSTER 154

IX. CONCERNING THE OTHER FELLOW 177

X. THE LADY IN A HURRY 200

XI. THE PERIL OF PIERRETTE 222

THE COUNT'S CHAUFFEUR

CHAPTER I

A MOVE ON THE "FORTY"

In Paris, in Rome, in Florence, in Berlin, in Vienna--in fact, over half
the face of Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Russian frontier--I am now
known as "The Count's Chauffeur."

An Englishman, as my name George Ewart denotes, I am of cosmopolitan
birth and education, my early youth having been spent on the Continent,
where my father was agent for a London firm.

When I was fourteen, my father, having prospered, came to London, and
established himself as an agent in Wood Street, City, representing a
great firm of silk manufacturers in Lyons.

At twenty I tried City life, but an office with a high stool, a dusty
ledger, and sandwich lunches, had no attraction for me. I had always had
a turn for mech