“Into the death-pit Lefort rode.”
THE GARDEN
OF SWORDS
Author of “Kronstadt,” “The Iron Pirate,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY L. WOOD
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK : 1902
Copyright, 1898
By Max Pemberton
Sickle and reaper and harvest of sorrow;
Heavy the wagons that gather the dead;
Let there be dirge for the sun of the morrow!
God is the gleaner on fields ye have fled!
CONTENTS
Book I
MAN AND WIFE
CHAPTER PAGE | ||
| I. | Père Bonot reads the “Courrier” | 1 |
| II. | At the Place Kleber | 10 |
| III. | “A Looming Bastion” | 25 |
| IV. | At the Châlet of the Niederwald | 33 |
| V. | The Herald of the Storm | 49 |
| VI. | The Last Day of July | 56 |
| VII. | “Those Others” | 67 |
| VIII. | Over the Hearts of France | 83 |
| IX. | The Fugitive | 90 |
| X. | Waiting | 102 |
| XI. | The Hussars are at Gunstett | 108 |