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The Mischief-Maker By: Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) |
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BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM AUTHOR OF "THE LIGHTED WAY," "THE TEMPTING OF TAVERNAKE," "HAVOC," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSON BOOTH 1913
CONTENTS BOOK ONE CHAPTER
I SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS II AN INDISCREET LETTER III A RUINED CAREER IV A BUNCH OF VIOLETS V A SENTIMENTAL EPISODE VI AT THE CAFÉ L'ATHÉNÉE VII COFFEE FOR THREE VIII IN PARIS IX MADAME CHRISTOPHOR X BETTER ACQUAINTANCE XI THE TOYMAKER FROM LEIPZIG XII AT THE RAT MORT XIII POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM XIV THE MORNING AFTER XV BEHIND CLOSED DOORS XVI "HAVE YOU EVER LOVED?" XVII KENDRICKS IS HOST XVIII A MEETING OF SOCIALISTS XIX AN OFFER XX FALKENBERG ACTS
BOOK TWO CHAPTER I THE FLIGHT OF LADY ANNE II "TO OUR NEW SELVES" III WORK FOR JULIEN IV A STARTLING DISCLOSURE V THE FIRST ARTICLE VI FALKENBERG FAILS VII LADY ANNE DECLINES VIII A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IX FOOLHARDY JULIEN X THE SECOND ATTEMPT XI BY THE PRINCE'S ORDERS XII DISTRESSING NEWS XIII ESTERMEN'S DEATH WARRANT XIV SANCTUARY XV NEARING A CRISIS XVI FALKENBERG'S LAST REPORT XVII DEFEAT FOR FALKENBERG XVIII THE ONE WAY OUT XIX ALL ENDS WELL
ILLUSTRATIONS "Really," he said, "I thought better of Herr Freudenberg" "At least," she reminded him, "you are going to see Madame
Christophor?" "Splendid!" he muttered, rising to his feet. "If only I can do it!" "Let me present to you Monsieur Bourgan of the French Detective
Service" BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS
The girl who was dying lay in an invalid chair piled up with cushions
in a sheltered corner of the lawn. The woman who had come to visit her
had deliberately turned away her head with a murmured word about the
sunshine and the field of buttercups. Behind them was the little
sanitarium, a gray stone villa built in the style of a château,
overgrown with creepers, and with terraced lawns stretching down to the
sunny corner to which the girl had been carried earlier in the day.
There were flowers everywhere beds of hyacinths, and borders of purple
and yellow crocuses. A lilac tree was bursting into blossom, the breeze
was soft and full of life. Below, beyond the yellow starred field of
which the woman had spoken, flowed the Seine, and in the distance one
could see the outskirts of Paris. "The doctor says I am better," the girl whispered plaintively. "This
morning he was quite cheerful. I suppose he knows, but it is strange
that I should feel so weak weaker even day by day. And my cough it
tears me to pieces all the time." The woman who was bending over her gulped something down in her throat
and turned her head. Although older than the invalid whom she had come
to visit, she was young and very beautiful. Her cheeks were a trifle
pale, but even without the tears her eyes were almost the color of
violets. "The doctor must know, dear Lucie," she declared. "Our own feelings so
often mean nothing at all." The girl moved a little uneasily in her chair. She, also, had once been
pretty. Her hair was still an exquisite shade of red gold, but her
cheeks were thin and pinched, her complexion had gone, her clothes fell
about her. She seemed somehow shapeless. "Yes," she agreed, "the doctor knows he must know. I see it in his
manner every time he comes to visit me. In his heart," she added,
dropping her voice, "he must know that I am going to die." Her eyes seemed to have stiffened in their sockets, to have become
dilated. Her lips trembled, but her eyes remained steadfast. "Oh! madame," she sobbed, "is it not cruel that one should die like
this! I am so young. I have seen so little of life. It is not just,
madame it is not just!" The woman who sat by her side was shaking. Her heart was torn with
pity. Everywhere in the soft, sunlit air, wherever she looked, she
seemed to read in letters of fire the history of this girl, the history
of so many others. "We will not talk of death, dear," she said... Continue reading book >>
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