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A Courier of Fortune By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT Author of “By Wit of Woman,” “The Queen’s Advocate,” “By Snare of Love,” “In The Name of a Woman,” “When I Was Czar,” etc., etc. A. L. BURT COMPANY Publish…
THE “TIGER OF MORVAIX” THE hot noontide sun was pouring down into the market place of Morvaix and in the shadow cast by the great Cross of St. Jean in the centre, a handsome but very soberly dressed …
THE MAISON DE MALINCOURT SOME two or three hours after the scene in the market place a girl sat at her spinning wheel on the terrace of the Maison de Malincourt, opposite the head of the stately flig…
SINISTER HINTS SCARCELY had Gabrielle left the terrace before Lucette’s wheel stopped and she began to think instead of work. Little frowns and smiles chased each other alternately across her dark ex…
THE DUKE’S PROPOSAL THERE was one very bitter heart in the maison on the following morning. Jacques Dauban had spent a bad night, groaning over aching bones and head, brooding over his wrongs and set…
THE TIGER’S CLAWS LUCETTE had had her own troubles as well. Never before had such a mischance occurred as that of the previous evening in the pine-walk; and the fact that she was merely tricking Daub…
“I AM KNOWN AS GERARD DE COBALT.” GABRIELLE’S heart beat very fast in the few moments she stood trying vainly to find words to speak, and she was conscious of little save a whirl of strange emotions …
AT MALINCOURT DISTRESSED as Gerard had been by the necessity to deceive Gabrielle, into which he had allowed himself to be drawn, he had no such qualms in regard to her uncle. He was convinced that, …
THE PLOT THICKENS MEANWHILE Gerard himself, without any help from Pascal’s misadventure, was finding enough embarrassments to tax his wit and resourcefulness. De Proballe, anxious that Gerard should …
WHAT DENYS KNEW PASCAL was all laughter and sallies as he led the way up to their apartments, but Gerard was in no such mood. He was very serious and full of misgivings at the course things were taki…
