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  THE ROAD TO PARIS

  BY R. N. STEPHENS

 

  Works of

  ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

  An Enemy to the King (Sixth Thousand)

  The Continental Dragoon (Fifth Thousand)

  The Road to Paris

  L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers

  (Incorporated)

  196 Summer St., Boston, Mass.

  THE ROAD TO PARIS

  "A WILD THRUST BETRAYED THAT HIS EYE WAS NO LONGER TRUE."

  (_See page 536._)]

  THE ROAD TO PARIS

  A Story of Adventure

  BY

  ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

  AUTHOR OF "AN ENEMY TO THE KING" "THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON," ETC.

  Illustrated by H. C. EDWARDS

  "Hark how the drums beat up again For all true soldiers, gentlemen; Then let us 'list and march away Over the hills and far away."

  --_Old Song._

  BOSTON L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED) 1898

  _Copyright, 1898_ By L. C. Page and Company (INCORPORATED)

  _Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_

  Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A.

  "_D'Artagnan ... touched the earth, moistened with the evening dew, with the ends of his fingers, crossed himself as if at the holy-water vessel of a church, and retook alone--ever alone--the road to Paris._"

  --THE VISCOUNT OF BRAGELONNE.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER PAGE

  INTRODUCTION ix

  I. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS 1

  II. "OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY" 21

  III. AT THE SIGN OF THE GEORGE 50

  IV. OF A BROKEN SABBATH AND BROKEN HEADS 72

  V. FROM BROADWAY TO BUNKER HILL 92

  VI. THE WIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE 118

  VII. THE MARCH THROUGH MAINE 150

  VIII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF QUEBEC 175

  IX. THE INCIDENTS OF A SNOWY NIGHT 201

  X. "BY FLOOD AND FIELD" 227

  XI. THREE WHIMSICAL GENTLEMEN AND A BEAUTIFUL LADY 257

  XII. THE DEVIL TO PAY AT THE PELICAN INN 288

  XIII. "UP AND DOWN IN LONDON TOWN" 323

  XIV. "FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE" 352

  XV. AN ELOPEMENT FROM A DILIGENCE 376

  XVI. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY 401

  XVII. "STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE" 426

  XVIII. DICK GIVES A SPECIMEN OF AMERICAN SHOOTING 452

  XIX. THE FAVOR OF A PRINCE 474

  XX. THE HONOR OF A LADY-IN-WAITING 499

  XXI. "THE ROAD TO PARIS" 524