The Maid-At-Arms

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Chambers Robert William. The Maid-At-Arms

I. THE ROAD TO VARICKS'

II. IN THE HALLWAY

III. COUSINS

IV. SIR LUPUS

V. A NIGHT AT THE PATROON'S

VI. DAWN

VII. AFTERMATH

VIII. RIDING THE BOUNDS

IX. HIDDEN FIRE

X. TWO LESSONS

XI. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS

XII. THE GHOST-RING

XIII. THE MAID-AT-ARMS

XIV. ON DUTY

XV. THE FALSE-FACES

XVI. ON SCOUT

XVII. THE FLAG

XVIII. ORISKANY

XIX. THE HOME TRAIL

XX. COCK-CROW

XXI. THE CRISIS

XXII. THE END OF THE BEGINNING

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So this was Northern hospitality! This a Northern gentleman's home, with its cobwebbed ceiling, its little window-panes opaque with stain of rain and dust, its carpetless floors innocent of wax, littered with odds and ends–here a battered riding-cane; there a pair of tarnished spurs; yonder a scarlet hunting-coat a-trail on the banisters, with skirts all mud from feet that mayhap had used it as a mat in rainy weather!

I leaned forward and picked up the riding-crop; its cane end was capped with heavy gold. The spurs I also lifted for inspection; they were beautifully wrought in silver.

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"Oh, I am no prude–"

"Do you mean to say Sir Lupus sanctions it?"

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