THE DEAD TRYST
BY
JAMES GRANT
AUTHOR OF 'THE ROMANCE OF WAR'
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK: 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE
1883
JAMES GRANT'S NOVELS,
Price 2s. each, Fancy Boards.
The Romance of War
The Aide-de-Camp
The Scottish Cavalier
Bothwell
Jane Seton: or, the Queen's Advocate
Philip Rollo
The Black Watch
Mary of Lorraine
Oliver Ellis: or, the Fusileers
Lucy Arden: or, Hollywood Hall
Frank Hilton: or, the Queen's Own
The Yellow Frigate
Harry Ogilvie: or, the Black Dragoons
Arthur Blane
Laura Everingham: or, the Highlanders of Glenora
The Captain of the Guard
Letty Hyde's Lovers
Cavaliers of Fortune
Second to None
The Constable of France
The Phantom Regiment
The King's Own Borderers
The White Cockade
First Love and Last Love
Dick Rooney
The Girl he Married
Lady Wedderburn's Wish
Jack Manly
Only an Ensign
Adventures of Rob Roy
Under the Red Dragon
The Queen's Cadet
Shall I Win Her?
Fairer than a Fairy
One of the Six Hundred
Morley Ashton
Did She Love Him?
The Ross-shire Buffs
Six Years Ago
Vere of Ours
The Lord Hermitage
The Royal Regiment
Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
The Cameronians
The Scots Brigade
Violet Jermyn
Jack Chaloner
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I. TWO COUSINS
II. CHARLIE PIERREPONT
III. THE DREADED MEETING
IV. CHARLIE IN LOVE
V. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DOM KIRCHE
VI. AN ALARM
VII. AMONG THE BREAKERS
VIII. CHARLIE'S VISITOR
IX. FOR LIFE AND DEATH
X. TO THE RHINE!
XI. SEPARATED
XII. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE
XIII. THE DREAM IN THE BIVOUAC
XIV. THE LETTER OF ERNESTINE
XV. WHAT THE 'EXTRA BLATT' TOLD
XVI. IN FRONT OF METZ
XVII. FACING A BATTERY OF MITRAILLEUSES
XVIII. IN THE ENEMY'S HANDS
XIX. THE CHATEAU DE CAILLÉ
XX. ERNESTINE
XXI. AT AIX ONCE MORE
XXII. AT BURTSCHEID
CONCLUSION
THE DEAD TRYST.
CHAPTER I.
THE COUSINS.
On an evening in summer before the late siege of Paris,three ladies—one a matron of mature years, the other twoboth young and handsome girls, a bru