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Title: A Fascinating Traitor

Author: Richard Henry Savage

Release Date: June, 2004 [EBook #5972]
Posting Date: March 28, 2009

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A FASCINATING TRAITOR

AN ANGLO-INDIAN STORY

By Col. Richard Henry Savage

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. OUT OF THE DEAD PAST.

I.-A Chance Meeting at Geneva

II.-An Offensive and Defensive Alliance

III.-"And at Delhi What Am I to Do?"

IV.-The Veiled Rosebud of Delhi

V.-A Diplomatic Tiffin

BOOK II. "A DEVIL FOR LUCK."

VI.-The Mysterious Bungalow

VII.-The Price of Safety

VIII.-Harry Hardwicke Takes the Gate Neatly!

IX.-Alan Hawke Plays His Trump Card

X.-A Captivated Viceroy

BOOK III. PRINCE DJIDDIN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.

XI.-"Do You See This Dagger?"

XII.-On the Cliffs of Jersey

XIII.-An Asiatic Lion in Hiding.

XIV.-The Council at Granville

XV.-The French Fisher Boat "Hirondelle"

BOOK I. OUT OF THE DEAD PAST.

CHAPTER I. A CHANCE MEETING AT GENEVA.

"By Jove! I may as well make an end of the thing right here to-night!"
was the dejected conclusion of a long council of war over which Major
Alan Hawke had presided, with the one straggling comfort of being its
only member.

All this long September afternoon he had dawdled away in feeding certain
rapacious swans navigating gracefully around Rousseau's Island. He had
consumed several Trichinopoly cigars in the interval, and had moodily
gazed back upon the strange path which had led him to the placid shores
of Lake Leman! The gay promenaders envied the debonnair-looking young
Briton, whose outer man was essentially "good form." Children left the
side of their ox-eyed bonnes to challenge the handsome young stranger
with shy, friendly approaches.

Bevies of flashing-eyed American girls "took him in" with parthian
glances, and even a widowed Russian princess, hobbling by, easing her
gouty steps with a jeweled cane, gaze