The Maids of Paradise

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Chambers Robert William. The Maids of Paradise

PREFACE

PART FIRST. THE MAIDS OF PARADISE

I. AT THE TELEGRAPH

II. THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERES

III. LA TRAPPE

IV. PRISONERS

V. THE IMMORTALS

VI. THE GAME BEGINS

VII. A STRUGGLE FORESHADOWED

VIII. A MAN TO LET

PART SECOND

IX. THE ROAD TO PARADISE

X. THE TOWN-CRIER

XI. IN CAMP

XII. JACQUELINE

XIII. FRIENDS

XIV. THE PATH OF THE LIZARD

XV. FOREWARNED

XVI. A RESTLESS MAN

XVII. THE CIRCUS

PART THIRD

XVIII. A GUEST-CHAMBER

XIX. TRÉCOURT GARDEN

XX. THE SEMAPHORE

XXI. LIKE HER ANCESTORS

XXII. THE SECRET

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On the third day of August, 1870, I left Paris in search of John Buckhurst.

On the 4th of August I lost all traces of Mr. Buckhurst near the frontier, in the village of Morsbronn. The remainder of the day I spent in acquiring that “general information” so dear to the officials in Paris whose flimsy systems of intelligence had already begun to break down.

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She was gazing at me with dilated eyes, hands holding tight to the balustrade.

“Did you not know that?” I asked, astonished.

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