THE PUPPET CROWN


by Harold MacGrath



TO THE MEMORY OF THAT GOOD FRIEND
AND
COMRADE OF MY YOUTH
MY FATHER






CONTENTS


CHAPTER I.   THE SCEPTER WHICH WAS A STICK

CHAPTER II.   THE COUP D'ETAT OF COUSIN JOSEF

CHAPTER III.   AN EPISODE TEN YEARS AFTER

CHAPTER IV.   AN ADVENTURE WITH ROYALTY

CHAPTER V.   BEHIND THE PUPPET BOOTH

CHAPTER VI.   MADEMOISELLE OF THE VEIL

CHAPTER VII.   SOME DIALOGUE, A SPRAINED ANKLE, AND SOME SOLDIERS

CHAPTER VIII.   THE RED CHATEAU

CHAPTER IX.   NOTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN A HOUSE PARTY

CHAPTER X.   BEING OF LONG RIDES, MAIDS, KISSES AND MESSAGES

CHAPTER XI.   THE DENOUEMENT

CHAPTER XII.   WHOM THE GODS DESTROY AND A FEW OTHERS

CHAPTER XIII.   BEING OF COMPLICATIONS NOT RECKONED ON

CHAPTER XIV.   QUI M'AIME, AIME MON CHIEN

CHAPTER XV.   IN WHICH FORTUNE BECOMES CARELESS AND PRODIGAL

CHAPTER XVI.   WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ARCHBISHOP'S PALACE AND AFTER

CHAPTER XVII.   SOME PASSAGES AT ARMS

CHAPTER XVIII.   A MINOR CHORD AND A CHANGE OF MOVEMENT

CHAPTER XIX.   A CHANCE RIDE IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XX.   THE LAST STAND OF A BAD SERVANT

CHAPTER XXI.   A COURT FETE AT THE RED CHATEAU

CHAPTER XXII.   IN WHICH MAURICE RECURS TO OFFENBACH

CHAPTER XXIII.   A GAME OF POKER AND THE STAKES

CHAPTER XXIV.   THE PRISONER OF THE RED CHATEAU

CHAPTER XXV.   THE FORTUNES OF WAR

CHAPTER XXVI.   A PAGE FROM TASSO

CHAPTER XXVII.   WORMWOOD AND LEES

CHAPTER XXVIII.      INTO THE HANDS OF AUSTRIA

CHAPTER XXIX.   INTO STILL WATERS AND SILENCE






             Ah Love! Could you and I with Him conspire             To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire               Would not we shatter it to bits—and then             Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's desi                        
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