S. R. CROCKETT
Reading edition
SECOND EDITION
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
Printed in 1913
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
How the Tricolour came Down1
CHAPTER II
Kith and Kin9
CHAPTER III
The Laundry Door13
CHAPTER IV
Through the Enemy's Lines21
CHAPTER V
The Deventer Girls30
CHAPTER VI
An Old Man Masterful34
CHAPTER VII
Our First Communard44
CHAPTER VIII
I See the Scarlet Tatter near at Hand50
CHAPTER IX
A Reunion of the Reds57
CHAPTER X
Jeanne's Velvet Eyes65
CHAPTER XI
How Men See Red73
CHAPTER XII
Good-bye, Rhoda Polly"78
CHAPTER XIII
We Seek Garibaldi84
CHAPTER XIV
The Children"96
CHAPTER XV
First Blood101
CHAPTER XVI
The Coming of Alida107
CHAPTER XVII
A Desert Princess117
CHAPTER XVIII
The Princess Commands126
CHAPTER XIX
Keller Bey Comes to Aramon132
CHAPTER XX
I Play "Three's Company"138
CHAPTER XXI
The Golden Heart of Rhoda Polly145
CHAPTER XXII
In the Valley of the Shadow149
CHAPTER XXIII
The Misgivings of Alida156
CHAPTER XXIV
Peace before Storm169
CHAPTER XXV
The Proclamation175
CHAPTER XXVI
Keller Bey, Insurgent185
CHAPTER XXVII
Under which King, Bezonian?199
CHAPTER XXVIII
Storm Gathering208
CHAPTER XXIX
Within the Pale216
CHAPTER XXX
Devil's Talk226
CHAPTER XXXI
The Black Band233
CHAPTER XXXII
Ready!"239
CHAPTER XXXIII
Hell Upside Down!"251
CHAPTER XXXIV
The Passing of Keller Bey259
CHAPTER XXXV
A Captain of Brigands266
CHAPTER XXXVI
Left-Handed Matthew273
CHAPTER XXXVII
Loot284
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The Last Adventure of the Black Band291
CHAPTER XXXIX
The Conversion of Chanot306
CHAPTER XL
The Last of the "Tatter of Scarlet"312