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THE ROAD TO PARIS
BY R. N. STEPHENS
Works of
ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
An Enemy to the King (Sixth Thousand)
The Continental Dragoon (Fifth Thousand)
The Road to Paris
L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers
(Incorporated)
196 Summer St., Boston, Mass.
THE ROAD TO PARIS
"A WILD THRUST BETRAYED THAT HIS EYE WAS NO LONGER TRUE."
(_See page 536._)]
THE ROAD TO PARIS
A Story of Adventure
BY
ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
AUTHOR OF "AN ENEMY TO THE KING" "THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON," ETC.
Illustrated by H. C. EDWARDS
"Hark how the drums beat up again For all true soldiers, gentlemen; Then let us 'list and march away Over the hills and far away."
--_Old Song._
BOSTON L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED) 1898
_Copyright, 1898_ By L. C. Page and Company (INCORPORATED)
_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_
Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A.
"_D'Artagnan ... touched the earth, moistened with the evening dew, with the ends of his fingers, crossed himself as if at the holy-water vessel of a church, and retook alone--ever alone--the road to Paris._"
--THE VISCOUNT OF BRAGELONNE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
INTRODUCTION ix
I. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS 1
II. "OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY" 21
III. AT THE SIGN OF THE GEORGE 50
IV. OF A BROKEN SABBATH AND BROKEN HEADS 72
V. FROM BROADWAY TO BUNKER HILL 92
VI. THE WIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE 118
VII. THE MARCH THROUGH MAINE 150
VIII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF QUEBEC 175
IX. THE INCIDENTS OF A SNOWY NIGHT 201
X. "BY FLOOD AND FIELD" 227
XI. THREE WHIMSICAL GENTLEMEN AND A BEAUTIFUL LADY 257
XII. THE DEVIL TO PAY AT THE PELICAN INN 288
XIII. "UP AND DOWN IN LONDON TOWN" 323
XIV. "FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE" 352
XV. AN ELOPEMENT FROM A DILIGENCE 376
XVI. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY 401
XVII. "STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE" 426
XVIII. DICK GIVES A SPECIMEN OF AMERICAN SHOOTING 452
XIX. THE FAVOR OF A PRINCE 474
XX. THE HONOR OF A LADY-IN-WAITING 499
XXI. "THE ROAD TO PARIS" 524
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