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Title: The Four Feathers

Author: A. E. W. Mason

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Language: English

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THE FOUR FEATHERS

by

A. E. W. MASON

Author of "Miranda of the Balcony," "The Courtship of Morrice Buckler,"
Etc.

New York
The MacMillan Company
London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd.
1903
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1901,
By A. E. W. Mason.
Copyright, 1902,
By The MacMillan Company.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1902. Reprinted November,
December, 1902; January, 1903; February, March, 1903.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To
MISS ELSPETH ANGELA CAMPBELL
June 19, 1902.

CONTENTS

I. A Crimean Night

II. Captain Trench and a Telegram

III. The Last Ride Together

IV. The Ball at Lennon House

V. The Pariah

VI. Harry Feversham's Plan

VII. The Last Reconnaissance

VIII. Lieutenant Sutch is tempted to lie

IX. At Glenalla

X. The Wells of Obak

XI. Durrance hears News of Feversham

XII. Durrance sharpens his Wits

XIII. Durrance begins to see

XIV. Captain Willoughby reappears

XV. The Story of the First Feather

XVI. Captain Willoughby retires

XVII. The Musoline Overture

XVIII. The Answer to the Overture

XIX. Mrs. Adair interferes

XX. West and East

XXI. Ethne makes Another Slip

XXII. Durrance lets his Cigar go out

XXIII. Mrs. Adair makes her Apology

XXIV. On the Nile

XXV. Lieutenant Sutch comes off the Half-pay List

XXVI. General Feversham's Portraits are appeased

XXVII. The House of Stone

XXVIII. Plans of Escape

XXIX. Colonel Trench assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry

XXX. The Last of the Souther