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Arthur W. Marchmont. A Dash for a Throne
A Dash for a Throne
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MY DEATH
CHAPTER II. A GATE OF LIFE
CHAPTER III "AS YOUR HIGHNESS WILL"
CHAPTER IV "YOU ARE HEAD OF THE HOUSE NOW"
CHAPTER V. THE SCENT OF TREACHERY
CHAPTER VI. MY "COUSIN"
CHAPTER VII. AT MUNICH
CHAPTER VIII. PRAGA'S STORY
CHAPTER IX. MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER X. A COUNCIL OF CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER XI "EVEN ONE SUBJECT MAY MAKE A KINGDOM"
CHAPTER XII. MY SCHEME DEVELOPS
CHAPTER XIII. A CHECK
CHAPTER XIV. THE ABDUCTION
CHAPTER XV. A TREACHEROUS ATTACK
CHAPTER XVI. THE BALL AT THE PALACE
CHAPTER XVII. CHECKMATE
CHAPTER XVIII. AFTER THE ABDUCTION
CHAPTER XIX. THE MAID'S STORY
CHAPTER XX. COVERING MY DEFEAT
CHAPTER XXI. NEWS OF MINNA
CHAPTER XXII. AT LANDSBERG
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE MEETING
CHAPTER XXV "I AM NOT THE PRINCE"
CHAPTER XXVI. FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVII. AN OLD ENEMY
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE EMPEROR
CHAPTER XXIX. COUNT VON RUDLOFF
CHAPTER XXX. THE END
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Arthur W. Marchmont
e-artnow, 2022
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"I will see," I answered. "I am a dead man, and the dead are more the concern of Providence than the living. I will drift for a while in the back waters," and I shrugged my shoulders.
I made no plans. That night I left Berlin, and as the train whirled me southward I tried with resolute hand to make the barrier that shut out the old life so bullet-proof that not even the stinging thoughts of impotent remorse and regret could wound me. I was only human, however, and barely twenty-three; and the sorrow of my loneliness was like a cankered wound. I felt like a shipwrecked derelict waif on the wide callous sea of stranger humanity.
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