The Missourian

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Eugene P. Lyle. The Missourian

The Missourian

Table of Contents

3CHAPTER I. A Wilful Maid Arrives from France

11CHAPTER II. A Fra Diavolo in the Land of Roses

18CHAPTER III. The Violent End of a Terrible Bandit

27CHAPTER IV. La Luz, Blockade Runner

34CHAPTER V. The Storm Centre

45CHAPTER VI. A Bruising of Arms for Jacqueline

55CHAPTER VII. Swordsmanship in the Dark

64CHAPTER VIII. The Thoughts of Youth May Be Prodigiously Long Thoughts

69CHAPTER IX. Toll-Taking in the Huasteca

80CHAPTER X. The Brigand Chief

89CHAPTER XI. The Cossacks and Their Tiger Colonel

98CHAPTER XII. Pastime Passing Excellent

108CHAPTER XIII. Unregistered in Any Studbook

114CHAPTER XIV. The Herald of the Fair God

122CHAPTER XV. The Ritual

131CHAPTER XVI. He of the Debonair Sceptre

140CHAPTER XVII. Rather a Small Man

149CHAPTER XVIII. Little Monarchs, Big Mistakes

156CHAPTER XIX. A Tartar and a Tartar

164CHAPTER XX. In the Wake of Princely Cavalcades

173CHAPTER XXI. The Red Mongrel

182CHAPTER XXII “Equidad en la Justicia”

188CHAPTER XXIII. A Curious Pagan Rite

193CHAPTER XXIV. The Man Who Did Not Want to Be Shot

200CHAPTER XXV. The Person on the Other Horse

209CHAPTER XXVI. The Strangest Avowal of Love

219CHAPTER XXVII. Berthe

228CHAPTER XXVIII. Mike

238CHAPTER XXIX. The Whisper of the Sphinx

242CHAPTER XXX. The Ambassador

253CHAPTER XXXI. Carlota

258CHAPTER XXXII. The Woman Who Did Not Hesitate

266CHAPTER XXXIII. A Sponsor for the Fat Padre

PART SECOND. THE ROSE THAT WAS A THORN. IN THE LAND OF ROSES

273CHAPTER I. Meagre Shanks

284CHAPTER II. The Black Decree

293CHAPTER III. As Between Women

298CHAPTER IV. The Lacking Coincidence

306CHAPTER V. The Missourians

315CHAPTER VI. If a Kiss Were All

324CHAPTER VII. A Crop of Colonels

335CHAPTER VIII. Royal Resolution

344CHAPTER IX. Interpreter to the Almighty

351CHAPTER X. Alone Among His Loving Subjects

359CHAPTER XI. Fatality and the Missourian

369CHAPTER XII. The Rendezvous of the Republic

380CHAPTER XIII. A Buccaneer and a Battle

391CHAPTER XIV. Blood and Noise–What Else?

406CHAPTER XV. Of All News the Most Spiteful

422CHAPTER XVI. Vendetta’s Half Sister, Better Born

434CHAPTER XVII. Under a Spanish Cloak

443CHAPTER XVIII. El Chaparrito

459CHAPTER XIX. In Articulo Mortis

465CHAPTER XX. Knighthood’s Belated Flower

475CHAPTER XXI. The Title of Nobility

484CHAPTER XXII. The Abbey of Mount Regret

496CHAPTER XXIII. The Contrariness of Jacqueline

506CHAPTER XXIV. The Journalistic Sagacity of a Daniel

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Eugene P. Lyle

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Don Anastasio breathed easier, and he even grew so bold as to recall a certain suspicion he had entertained. “Your errand down here must be of considerable importance, Señor Coronel?” he ventured.

“There you are again–crawling again.” It was evident that the trooper’s normal condition was a great, hearty, calm good humor.

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