THE TRIUMPH
OF THE
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
BY
BARONESS ORCZY
Author of "Nicolette," "The First Sir Percy"
"Flower 'o the Lily," "The Scarlet
Pimpernel," etc.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. "The Everlasting Stars Look Down"
II. Feet of Clay
III. The Fellowship of Grief
IV. One Dram of Joy Must Have a Pound of Care
V. Rascality Rejoices
VI. One Crowded Hour of Glorious Life
VII. Two Interludes
VIII. The Beautiful Spaniard
IX. A Hideous, Fearful Hour
X. The Grim Idol that the World Adores
XI. Strange Happenings
XII. Chauvelin
XIII. The Fisherman's Rest
XIV. The Castaway
XV. The Nest
XVI. A Lover of Sport
XVII. Reunion
XVIII. Night and Morning
XIX. A Rencontre
XX. Departure
XXI. Memories
XXII. Waiting
XXIII. Mice and Men
XXIV. By Order of the State
XXV. Four Days
XXVI. A Dream
XXVII. Terror or Ambition
XXVIII. In the Meanwhile
XXIX. The Close of the Second Day
XXX. When the Storm Burst
XXXI. Our Lady of Pity
XXXII. Grey Dawn
XXXIII. The Cataclysm
XXXIV. The Whirlwind
THE TRIUMPH OF
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
CHAPTER I
"THE EVERLASTING STARS LOOK DOWN, LIKE
GLISTENING EYES BRIGHT WITH IMMORTAL PITT, OVER THE LOT OF
MAN."
§1
Nearly five years have gone by!
Five years, since the charred ruins of grim Bastille—stone image ofAbsolutism and of Autocracy—set the seal of victory upon theexpression of a people's will and marked the beginning of that marvellousera of Liberty and of Fraternity which has led us step by step from thedethronement of a King, through the martyrdom of countless innocents, tothe tyranny of an oligarchy more arbitrary, more relentless, above allmore cruel, than any that the dictators of Rome or Stamboul ever dreamedof in their wildest thirst for power. An era that sees a populace alwaysclamouring for the Millennium, which ranting demagogue