The Fate of a Crown
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Baum Lyman Frank. The Fate of a Crown
CHAPTER I. THE BLUE ENVELOPE
CHAPTER II. VALCOUR
CHAPTER III. A GOOD REPUBLICAN
CHAPTER IV. THE CHIEFTAIN
CHAPTER V. MADAM IZABEL
CHAPTER VI. THE SECRET VAULT
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL FONSECA
CHAPTER VIII. A TERRIBLE CRIME
CHAPTER IX. THE MISSING FINGER
CHAPTER X “FOR TO-MORROW WE DIE!”
CHAPTER XI. LESBA’S BRIGHT EYES
CHAPTER XII. THE MAN IN THE SHRUBBERY
CHAPTER XIII. DOM PEDRO DE ALCANTARA
CHAPTER XIV. THE MAN WITH THE RING
CHAPTER XV. A DANGEROUS MOMENT
CHAPTER XVI. TRAITOR TO THE CAUSE
CHAPTER XVII. THE TORCH OF REBELLION
CHAPTER XVIII. A NARROW ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIX. THE WAYSIDE INN
CHAPTER XX “ARISE AND STRIKE!”
CHAPTER XXI. ONE MYSTERY SOLVED
CHAPTER XXII. THE DEATH SENTENCE
CHAPTER XXIII. AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE EMPEROR’S SPY
CHAPTER XXV. THE GIRL I LOVE
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Leaning back in my chair, I smoked my morning cigar and watched Uncle Nelson open his mail. He had an old-fashioned way of doing this: holding the envelope in his left hand, clipping its right edge with his desk shears, and then removing the inclosure and carefully reading it before he returned it to its original envelope. Across one end he would make a memorandum of the contents, after which the letters were placed in a neat pile.
As I watched him methodically working, Uncle Nelson raised a large blue envelope, clipped its end, and read the inclosure with an appearance of unusual interest. Then, instead of adding it to the letters before him, he laid it aside; and a few minutes later reverted to it again, giving the letter a second careful perusal. Deeply musing, for a time he sat motionless in his chair. Then, arousing himself from his deep abstraction, he cast a fleeting glance in my direction and composedly resumed his task.
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Arising somewhat before my usual hour I made a hurried toilet and sat down to make entries in my diary. I stated that my sudden desire to visit Brazil was due to curiosity, and that my uncle had placed several minor business matters in my hands to attend to. My return to New Orleans would depend entirely upon how well I liked the country where our house had so successfully traded for a half-century. Arriving at this point, I added the following paragraphs:
This entry I intended to puzzle Senhor Valcour, even if it failed to wholly deceive him. I wrote it with assumed carelessness, to render it uniform with the former paragraphs the book contained. These last were of a trivial nature, dating back for some months. They would interest no one but myself; yet I expected them to be read, for I left the diary lying upon my shelf, having first made a number of pin-marks in the paint, at the edges of the cover, so that I might assure myself, on my return to the room, whether or not the book had been disturbed.
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