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Ambrose Pratt. The Counterstroke
The Counterstroke
Table of Contents
R. F. FENNO & COMPANY. PUBLISHERS: 18 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY
CHAPTER I.—THE ACADEMY OF EX-AMBASSADORS
CHAPTER II.—PORTRAITS
CHAPTER III.—A SPY UPON A SPY
CHAPTER IV.—TWO WOMEN'S HEARTS
CHAPTER V.—FRANCINE DISAPPEARS
CHAPTER VI.—A DIFFICULT SITUATION
CHAPTER VII.—LOVE AND LIES
CHAPTER VIII.—THE TORTURE OF THE THUMBSCREWS
CHAPTER IX.—THE VOYAGE OF THE "SEA HAWK"
CHAPTER X.—THE COUNCIL OF KINGS
CHAPTER XI.—THE VENGEANCE OF A PRINCE
CHAPTER XII.—THE LORD OF ATTALA
CHAPTER XIII.—CONDEMNED TO DEATH
CHAPTER XIV.—A DREAM OF HOPE
CHAPTER XV.—THE DOOM OF A MONARCH
CHAPTER XVI.—THE TREASURE-CHAMBER OF THE NIHILISTS
CHAPTER XVII.—ESCAPE
CHAPTER XVIII.—THE CAUTION OF A KING
CHAPTER XIX.—EXPLANATION: ASSASSINATION
CHAPTER XX.—SIDE-LIGHTS AND SERMONS
CHAPTER XXI.—A SUPPER PARTY
CHAPTER XXII.—A GAME OF DICE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XXIII.—THE INVASION OF ATTALA
CHAPTER XXIV.—THE CAPTURE OF ATTALA
CHAPTER XXV.—THE LOVE OF OELTJEN
CHAPTER XXVI.—THE END OF BOSA GRACCI
CHAPTER XXVII.—FRANCINE
THE END
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Ambrose Pratt
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Mr. Perigord smiled satirically. "The Czar still rules," he said, adding with marked coldness, "but unhappily Madame Viyella has succeeded in persuading you that she was an innocent agent and unaware of the contents of that letter!"
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