Introduction

In this stirring romance of the seventeenth century the reader shares the adventures of an English officer who serves under Turenne in his German campaigns. The author has written an engrossing story of love and war.

"The author of 'Denounced' is second to none in the romantic recounting of the tales of earlier days. A story of the critical times of the vagrant and ambitious Charles I, it is so replete with incident and realistic happenings that one seems translated to the very scenes and days of that troublous era in English history. The interest throughout is of that absorbing and magnetic kind that holds one's attention closely from the first chapter to the last."—Boston Courier.

I.—Awaiting the traveller. II.—The traveller from England. III.—A parting soul. IV.—Les attroupés. V.—'Twixt then and now. VI.—"La femme, malheureusement si fameuse, funeste et terrible."—St. Simon. VII.—The house by the bridge. VIII.—An exodus. IX.—"Baville! un magistrat dont les epouvantables rigueurs doivent être signalée à l'horreur de la postérité"—St. Simon. X.—The lighted torch. XI.—"Consorting with heretics." XII.—"I am a Protestant." XIII.—Urbaine. XIV.—The attack. XV.—Shelter and refuge. XVI.—Succour. XVII.—The ruse. XVIII.—La divinéresse. XIX.—Lex talionis. XX.—What is this mystery? XXI.—"You will never find him." XXII.—I love you. XXIII.—"Love her! Beyond all thought! And she is there." XXIV.—"An errand of life or death." XXV.—Par le fer et par le feu. XXVI.—Doomed. XXVII.—Her father, Urbain Ducaire. XXVIII.—Baville—superb! XXIX.—"Her father's murderer." XXX.—Free. XXXI.—Betrayed. XXXII.—The bitterness of death. XXXIII.—Tout savoir, c'est pardonner.