Secret Service

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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