Red Masquerade

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Louis Joseph Vance. Red Masquerade

Red Masquerade

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BOOK I

A CHAPTER FROM THE YOUTH OF MONSIEUR MICHAEL LANYARD

RED MASQUERADE

I

PLEBEIAN AND PRINCE

II

THE PRINCESS SOFIA

III

MONSIEUR QUIXOTE

IV

THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY

V

IMPOSTOR

VI

THÉRÈSE

VII

FAMILY REUNION

VIII

GREEK VS. GREEK

IX

PAID IN FULL

BOOK II

THE LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER

I

THE GIRL SOFIA

II

MASKS AND FACES

III

THE AGONY COLUMN

IV

MUTINY

V

HOUSE OF THE WOLF

VI

THE MUMMER

VII

THE FANTASTICS

VIII

COUNCIL OF THE GODLESS

IX

MRS. WARING

X

VICTOR ET AL

XI

HEARTBREAK

XII

SUSPECT

XIII

THE TURNIP

XIV

CONFERENCE OF THE DAMNED

XV

INTUITION

XVI

THE CRYSTAL

XVII

THE RAISED CHEQUE

XVIII

ORDEAL

XIX

UNMASKING

XX

THE DEVIL TO PAY

XXI

VENTRE À TERRE

XXII

THE SEVEN BRASS HINGES

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Louis Joseph Vance

Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter

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Here, if you please, was the scion of a reigning royal family risking as pretty a scandal as one could well imagine--and all for love! Given a few more days of life, and he would have jeopardized his right of succession and set half-a-dozen European chancelleries by the ears--and all for love! But for his untimely end, that poor, pretty creature would have joined her life to his, consummating at one stroke her freedom from the intolerable conditions of existence with Victor and a diplomatic convulsion which might only too easily have precipitated all Europe into a great war--and all for lawless love!

So once more in history Death had served well the interests of public morality.

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