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“QUICK!” I WHISPERED; “OPEN THE DOOR BEYOND, AND GO OUT BY THE PRIVATE WAY.”—Page 8.]

THE TRAITOR’S WAY

By

S. LEVETT-YEATS

Author of “THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI,” ETC.

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY W. B. GILBERT

NEW YORK · FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY · PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1901, BY FRANK A. MUNSEY

Copyright, 1901, BY S. LEVETT-YEATS

Copyright, 1901, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Sowing The Winds, 1

II. The Rue des Lavandières, 13

III. The Parting of the Ways, 26

IV. What Majolais Saw, 37

V. Pour ma Foy, et mon Roy, 45

VI. A Priest of Baal, 57

VII. Monsieur of Arles Marks the King, 73

VIII. At the Sign of the Green Man, 87

IX. How Ponthieu Carried the Admiral’s Letter, 101

X. The Vision of the Wood, 115

XI. The City of the Maid, 126

XII. “Gentlemen! I am with You,” 140

XIII. How Signor Bentivoglio Burned his Aloes, 152

XIV. The Widow of France, 164

XV. The King’s Peace, 175

XVI. The King’s Signet, 189

XVII. Le Petit Homme tant Joli, 202

XVIII. Marie, 220

XIX. The Priory of the Jacobins, 239

XX. A Quotation from Virgil, 258

XXI. The Shame of Vibrac, 269

XXII. Notre Homme est Croqué, 289

XXIII. The Aftermath, 306

THE TRAITOR’S WAY