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Title: A Modern Mercenary
Author: Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
Release Date: February 24, 2009 [eBook #28167]
Language: English
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A MODERN MERCENARY
by
K. AND HESKETH PRICHARD
[E. AND H. HERON]
New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1902
Copyright, 1899, by
Doubleday & McClure Co.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A LIEUTENANT OF FRONTIER CAVALRY 1
II. A GENTLEMAN OF THE GUARD 14
III. THE GENTLEMEN OF THE GUARD 28
IV. DANGER SIGNALS 41
V. GOOD LUCK AND A FIREFLY 48
VI. THE CLOISTER OF ST. ANTHONY 62
VII. ONE WOMAN'S DIPLOMACY 79
VIII. A QUESTION OF THE GUARD 94
IX. THE CASTLE OF SAGAN 106
X. COUNT SIMON OF SAGAN 120
XI. A COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCY 130
XII. ANTHONY UNZIAR 136
XIII. LOVE IN TWO SHADES 144
XIV. HALF A PROMISE 153
XV. COLENDORP 159
XVI. 'WITH YOUR LIPS TO THE HURT' 170
XVII. IRIS 177
XVIII. THE SWORD OF UNZIAR 186
XIX. IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
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