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Title: The Lost Prince

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Posting Date: August 12, 2008 [EBook #384]
Release Date: January, 1996

Language: English

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THE LOST PRINCE

Francis Hodgson Burnett

CONTENTS

I The New Lodgers at No. 7 Philibert Place
II A Young Citizen of the World
III The Legend of the Lost Prince
IV The Rat
V "Silence Is Still the Order"
VI The Drill and the Secret Party
VII "The Lamp Is Lighted!"
VIII An Exciting Game
IX "It Is Not a Game"
X The Rat--and Samavia
XI Come with Me
XII Only Two Boys
XIII Loristan Attends a Drill of the Squad
XIV Marco Does Not Answer
XV A Sound in a Dream
XVI The Rat to the Rescue
XVII "It Is a Very Bad Sign"
XVIII "Cities and Faces"
XIX "That Is One!"
XX Marco Goes to the Opera
XXI "Help!"
XXII A Night Vigil
XXIII The Silver Horn
XXIV "How Shall We Find Him?"
XXV A Voice in the Night
XXVI Across the Frontier
XXVII "It is the Lost Prince! It Is Ivor!"
XXVIII "Extra! Extra! Extra!"
XXIX 'Twixt Night and Morning
XXX The Game Is at an End
XXXI "The Son of Stefan Loristan"

THE LOST PRINCE

I

THE NEW LODGERS AT NO. 7 PHILIBERT PLACE

There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of
London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier
than Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been more
attractive, but that had been so long ago that no one remembered the
time. It stood back in its gloomy, narrow strips of uncared-for, smoky
gardens, whose broken iron railings were supposed to protect it from
the surging traffic of a road which was always roaring with the rattle
of busses, cabs, drays, and vans, and the passing of people who were
shabbily dressed and looked as if they were either going to hard work
or coming from it, or hurrying to see