Secret Service
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Brady Cyrus Townsend. Secret Service
PREFACE
BOOK I. WHAT HAPPENED AT EIGHT O’CLOCK
CHAPTER I. THE BATTERY PASSES
CHAPTER II. A COMMISSION FROM THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER III. ORDERS TO CAPTAIN THORNE
CHAPTER IV. MISS MITFORD’S INTERVENTION
CHAPTER V. THE UNFAITHFUL SERVANT
CHAPTER VI. THE CONFIDENCE OF EDITH VARNEY
BOOK II. WHAT HAPPENED AT NINE O’CLOCK
CHAPTER VII. WILFRED WRITES A LETTER
CHAPTER VIII. EDITH IS FORCED TO PLAY THE GAME
CHAPTER IX. THE SHOT THAT KILLED
BOOK III. WHAT HAPPENED AT TEN O’CLOCK
CHAPTER X. CAROLINE MITFORD WRITES A DESPATCH
CHAPTER XI. MR. ARRELSFORD AGAIN INTERPOSES
CHAPTER XII. THORNE TAKES CHARGE OF THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE
CHAPTER XIII. THE TABLES ARE TURNED
CHAPTER XIV. THE CALL OF THE KEY
CHAPTER XV. LOVE AND DUTY AT THE TOUCH
BOOK IV. WHAT HAPPENED AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK
CHAPTER XVI. THE TUMULT IN HUMAN HEARTS
CHAPTER XVII. WILFRED PLAYS THE MAN
CHAPTER XVIII. CAPTAIN THORNE JUSTIFIES HIMSELF
CHAPTER XIX. THE DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL
CHAPTER XX. THE LAST REPRIEVE
AFTERWORD
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Once upon a time a novel of mine was turned into a play. The dramatist who prepared the story for stage production sent me a copy of his efforts toward that end. About the only point of resemblance between his production and mine was the fact that they both bore the same title, the hero in each had the same name, and the action in both cases took place on this earth.
I was a young author then, and timid. I ventured humbly to enquire why the drama differed so entirely from the novel; and this ingenious, I might almost say ingenuous, explanation was vouchsafed me:
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“Then,” said Edith more softly, “it will be because you want to say it.”
“No,” said Thorne, resolutely and of his own motion releasing her hands, which she had allowed him to hold without remonstrance; “it will be because I must.”
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