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Title: The Bright Face of Danger

Author: Robert Neilson Stephens
H. C. Edwards

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Language: English

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The Bright Face of Danger

_Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the
Sieur de la Tournoire. Freely Translated into Modern English_

By Robert Neilson Stephens

_Author of_ "An Enemy to the King," "Philip Winwood," "The Mystery of
Murray Davenport," etc.

_Illustrated by_ H. C. Edwards

_Boston_
L. C. Page & Company
_Mdcccciiii_

_Copyright, 1904_
By L. C. Page & Company

_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_
_All rights reserved_

Published April, 1904
Colonial Press

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston. Mass., U.S.A.

_THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER is, in a distant way, a sequel to "An
Enemy to the King," but may be read alone, without any reference to
that tale. The title is a phrase of Robert Louis Stevenson's._

_THE AUTHOR._

[Illustration: "'I GIVE YOU ONE CHANCE FOR YOUR LIFE,' SAID I QUICKLY."]

CONTENTS

I. MONSIEUR HENRI DE LAUNAY SETS OUT ON A JOURNEY

II. A YOUNG MAN WHO WENT SINGING

III. WHERE THE LADY WAS

IV. WHO THE LADY WAS

V. THE CHATEAU DE LAVARDIN

VI. WHAT THE PERIL WAS

VII. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES

VIII. MATHILDE

IX. THE WINDING STAIRS

X. MORE THAN MERE PITY

XI. THE RAT-HOLE AND THE WATER-JUG

XII. THE ROPE LADDER

XIII. THE PARTING

XIV. IN THE FOREST

XV. THE TOWER OF MORLON

XVI. THE MERCY OF CAPTAIN FERRAGANT

XVII. THE SWORD OF LA TOURNOIRE

XVIII. THE MOUSTACHES OF BRIGNAN DE BRI