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Title: The Justice of the King

Author: Hamilton Drummond

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Language: English

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THE JUSTICE OF THE KING

by

HAMILTON DRUMMOND

Author of
"The King's Scapegoat," "Room Five,"
"The Houses," "Shoes of Gold," Etc.

International Fiction Library
Cleveland ---------- New York

Copyright, 1911
by the MacMillan Company
All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE DESPATCH
II. A LESSON IN OBEDIENCE
III. FOR A WOMAN'S SAKE
IV. THE JUSTICE OF THE KING
V. THE KING LAYS BARE HIS HEART
VI. HOW LOUIS LOVED HIS SON
VII. FOUR-AND-TWENTY, WITH THE HEART OF EIGHTEEN
VIII. THE BLACK DOG OF AMBOISE
IX. FRANCOIS VILLON, POET AND GALLOWS-CHEAT
X. LOVE, THE ENEMY
XI. THE CROSS IN THE DARKNESS
XII. LA MOTHE BELIEVES, BUT IS NOT CONVINCED
XIII. "FRIEND IS MORE THAN FAMILY"
XIV. FOR LIFE AND THRONE
XV. A QUESTION IN THEOLOGY
XVI. TOO SLOW AND TOO FAST
XVII. STEPHEN LA MOTHE ASKS THE WRONG QUESTION
XVIII. FRENCH AND ENGLISH
XIX. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
XX. THE LAST STAND
XXI. DENOUNCED
XXII. "WE MUST SAVE HER TOGETHER"
XXIII. JEAN SAXE IS EXPLICIT
XXIV. A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOUR
XXV. "IT IS A TRAP"
XXVI. COMMINES TAKES ADVICE
XXVII. THE SUCCESS OF FAILURE
XXVIII. PHILIP DE COMMINES, DIPLOMATIST
XXIX. THE PRICE OF A LATE BREAKFAST
XXX. "LOVE IS MY LIFE"
XXXI. SAXE RISES IN VILLON'S ESTIMATION
XXXII. LA MOTHE FULFILS HIS COMMISSION
XXXIII. THE ARREST
XXXIV. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
XXXV. THE DAWN BROADENS

THE JUSTICE OF THE KING

CHAPTER I

THE DESPATCH

All morning the King had been restless, unappeasable, captious, with
little relapses unto the immobility of deep thought, and those who knew
him best were probing deeply both their conscience and their conduct.
Had he sat aloof, quiet in the sunshine, his dogs s