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Title: A Village of Vagabonds

Author: F. Berkeley Smith

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A VILLAGE OF VAGABONDS

By F. BERKELEY SMITH

Author of "The Lady of Big Shanty."

A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED MAY, 1910

COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, BY SMITH PUBLISHING HOUSE

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The House by the Marsh 3

II. Monsieur le Cure 35

III. The Exquisite Madame de Breville 63

IV. The Smugglers 91

V. Marianne 120

VI. The Baron's Perfectos 151

VII. The Horrors of War 186

VIII. The Million of Monsieur de Savignac 213

IX. The Man with the Gun 245

X. The Bells of Pont du Sable 274

XI. The Miser--Garron 308

XII. Midwinter Flights 339

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A VILLAGE OF VAGABONDS

[Illustration: house by the marsh]

A Village of Vagabonds

CHAPTER ONE

THE HOUSE BY THE MARSH

It was in fat Madame Fontaine's little cafe at Bar la Rose, that Norman
village by the sea, that I announced my decision. It being market-day
the cafe was noisy with peasants, and the crooked street witho