The Fate of a Crown

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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