FORTUNE'S MY FOE
Reading edition
A ROMANCE
BY
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON
AUTHOR OF THE SCOURGE OF GOD, THE CLASH OF ARMS, DENOUNCED, IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, ETC.
NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1899
Copyright, 1898, 1899, B D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
Prologue--Off Cartagena. I. The lion and the jackal. II. An heiress. III. A "country clod." IV. An unknown visitor. V. The happy man. VI. Love's contest. VII. The clandestine marriage. VIII. Forebodings. IX. The end of the first act. X. "The Mignonne." XI. The colonists. XII. Vengeance is sweet. XIII. A broken sword. XIV. Bufton is implacable. XV. Plot and counterplot. XVI. Weaving the net. XVII. A discovery. XVIII. Ruse contre ruse. XIX. The second man. XX. Ariadne's compassion. XXI. A divine despair. XXII. "As ye sow." XXIII. Quiberon.