A Fascinating Traitor by Richard Savage
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A FASCINATING TRAITOR
AN ANGLO-INDIAN STORY
By Col. Richard Henry Savage
CONTENTS.
BOOK I. OUT OF THE DEAD PAST.
I.-A Chance Meeting at Geneva
II.-An Offensive and Defensive Alliance
III.-"And at Delhi What Am I to Do?"
IV.-The Veiled Rosebud of Delhi
V.-A Diplomatic Tiffin
BOOK II. "A DEVIL FOR LUCK."
VI.-The Mysterious Bungalow
VII.-The Price of Safety
VIII.-Harry Hardwicke Takes the Gate Neatly!
IX.-Alan Hawke Plays His Trump Card
X.-A Captivated Viceroy
BOOK III. PRINCE DJIDDIN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.
XI.-"Do You See This Dagger?"
XII.-On the Cliffs of Jersey
XIII.-An Asiatic Lion in Hiding.
XIV.-The Council at Granville
XV.-The French Fisher Boat "Hirondelle"
BOOK I. OUT OF THE DEAD PAST.
CHAPTER I. A CHANCE MEETING AT GENEVA.
"By Jove! I may as well make an end of the thing right here to-night!" was the dejected conclusion of a long council of war over which Major Alan Hawke had presided, with the one straggling comfort of being its only member.
All this long September afternoon he had dawdled away in feeding certain rapacious swans navigating gracefully around Rousseau's Island. He had consumed several Trichinopoly cigars in the interval, and had moodily gazed back upon the strange path which had led him to the placid shores of Lake Leman! The gay promenaders envied the debonnair-looking young Briton, whose outer man was essentially "good form." Children left the side of their ox-eyed bonnes to challenge the handsome young stranger with shy, friendly approaches.
Bevies of flashing-eyed American girls "took him in" with parthian glances, and even a widowed Russian princess, hobbling by, easing her gouty steps with a jeweled cane, gazed back upon the moody Adonis and sighed for the vanished days, when she possessed both the physical and mental capacity to wander from the beaten paths of the proprieties.
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- 1: A Fascinating Traitor by Richard Savage
- 2: As he stood there moodily defying adverse fate
- 3: A sweeping soldierly moustache
- 4: Distant looking Russian prince
- 5: Alan Hawke guarded the expected story of his own wanderings
- 6: Alan Hawke slowly sipped his champagne
- 7: Anstruther leaned toward Hawke
- 8: Mesdames Justine and Euphrosyne Delande
- 9: Major Alan Hawke nodded affably
- 10: The tide of luck was set dead against Anstruther
- 11: You were began Anson Anstruther
- 12: To spite his own fat witted Brunswickers
- 13: Alan Hawke was seated for an hour alone in his room
- 14: As the little paddle wheel steamer sped along toward Ferney
- 15: That he saw on the boat the Misses Phenie and Genie Forbes
- 16: I will then join Captain the Honorable Anson Anstruther
- 17: Only the business which brought me to Geneva
- 18: You will find me at the Hotel Faucon
- 19: When he announced the regrets of Mademoiselle Delande
- 20: After a tete a tete with Miss Genie
- 21: His writings to day are the pride of Genevan scholars
- 22: Simply said the Illinois capitalist
- 23: While Mother and Phenie were out shopping
- 24: He dispatched his luggage to the Faucon
- 25: His bustling air of command soon dispelled the loiterers
- 26: Now an easy carriage and to the Faucon
- 27: This may occupy Casimir and leave me free
- 28: Are you ready to meet me at Brindisi
- 29: The correspondence at Allahabad may cover all of moment
- 30: Sternly answered Madame Louison
- 31: I say he listened breathlessly au revoir at Brindisi
- 32: A new frock for Madame Frangipanni
- 33: Troubetskoi was nearly always away
- 34: Was brought to the chateau by Troubetskoi
- 35: Casimir Wieniawski staggered back into the cafe
- 36: As he swept down to the nearby Montreux station
- 37: As Alan Hawke sped on past Suez
- 38: At Calcutta Waiting at Allahabad for your letters
- 39: And the ryot groans under many taskmasters
- 40: Mademoiselle Justine Delande must be my secret friend
- 41: Sixty years had given Ram Lal added cunning
- 42: Hawke cut short Ram Lal's flowery figures
- 43: I must look to this and watch Ram Lal
- 44: Here in the land of gaudy Asiatic splendors
- 45: In the Delhi Club there was high wassail below him
- 46: Perhaps he wants the Baronetcy first
- 47: After dismissing his pony carriage
- 48: Here is the address in Allahabad
- 49: Beating heart that Justine Delande abandoned her fair
- 50: Miss Nadine sees absolutely no one
- 51: Major Alan Hawke closed the door
- 52: He murmured A diplomatic tiffin
- 53: After that one reassuring glance
- 54: Justine Delande unwound the girl's arms from round her neck
- 55: Hugh Johnstone rang a silver bell
- 56: When the host presented his guest to Mademoiselle Delande
- 57: I must only see Berthe Louison
- 58: The card of Captain Harry Hardwicke
- 59: Rather uneasily said Captain Hardwicke
- 60: And Justine gazed at her charge in surprise
- 61: Such as Valerie Delavigne must have been
- 62: Justine Delande was cheering the lonely girl
- 63: Madame Louison sank into a chair
- 64: Can you trust this Ram Lal Singh
- 65: And again Ram Lal grinned in his quiet way
- 66: Did he deliver with abject humility to Ram Lal Singh
- 67: Alixe Delavigne sprang up and faced him There she is
- 68: Then Alixe Delavigne laughed scornfully
- 69: He drove almost over me as I crossed the Chandnee Chouk
- 70: When Ram Lal Singh glided to the door of the pagoda
- 71: I will write the same to Euphrosyne
- 72: Euphrosyne will know always where I am
- 73: He had gasped when Madame Louison
- 74: He was gravely received by Mademoiselle Justine Delande
- 75: Alixe Delavigne sat in her splendid dining room
- 76: The letter addressed to the wife as Valerie Delavigne
- 77: Hugh Johnstone entered the Silver Bungalow
- 78: Pierre Troubetskoi had long known my father
- 79: Sternly replied Alixe Delavigne
- 80: But Madame Louison is a stranger to me
- 81: Since Nadine Johnstone's arrival
- 82: I'll not leave till I get the Baronetcy
- 83: In the presence of Justine Delande
- 84: Free to proclaim Madame Berthe Louison
- 85: I may find the pathway open to Nadine Johnstone's side
- 86: 'I want Nadine to remain a girl as yet
- 87: Ram Lal figuratively washed his hands in invisible water
- 88: His evenings were spent with Ram Lal
- 89: Take the first steamer to Brindisi
- 90: Madame Louison is only a stranger here
- 91: Don't let him work too long around Miss Nadine
- 92: Quietly whispered Hardwicke to Simpson
- 93: Then she whispered a few words to Captain Hardwicke
- 94: Madame Louison quietly descended
- 95: Hugh Johnstone writhed in rage
- 96: Harry Hardwicke was sitting at the side of Nadine Johnstone
- 97: He will be a week or so at Delhi
- 98: While Ram Lal Singh fumed at Delhi
- 99: Justine Delande had timidly bribed a stewardess
- 100: Major Hardwicke threw himself down in a chair
- 101: And the other drew out for Allahabad
- 102: To be Alixe Delavigne to one bright
- 103: He intends to crush Berthe Louison by some foul blow
- 104: It will recall your own saber play so neatly conceived
- 105: And I'll be damned glad to get Johnstone out of my bailiwick
- 106: Alixe Delavigne counted the moments
- 107: Alixe Delavigne watched the carriage dash away
- 108: And old Johnstone will fear me
- 109: Madame Berthe Louison was seen in Delhi
- 110: The poisoned dagger of Mirzah Shah
- 111: Ram Lal was on the floor at her feet
- 112: And bade a long adieu to Delhi
- 113: I might go to Abercromby and warn him about Johnstone
- 114: I'll make Johnstone have Hawke here to breakfast
- 115: Gasped the wondering Johnstone
- 116: Once properly launched by Abercromby
- 117: For Major Harry Hardwicke of the Corps of Engineers
- 118: The dispatch was headed Brindisi
- 119: Give Abercromby a splendid dinner
- 120: Laughingly rejoined Berthe Louison
- 121: Will telegraph you from Brindisi
- 122: Alan Hawke betook himself forthwith to Delhi
- 123: For the knife of Mirzah Shah was reeking
- 124: The peerless Ghori swordsmen of Khorassan
- 125: A moonlight eyed Eurasian girl
- 126: General Willoughby drew the Major aside
- 127: While the anxious Viceroy was busied at Calcutta
- 128: Bade Ram Lal await him at midnight
- 129: This coolness unsettled the wily jeweler
- 130: Still covering the cowering wretch with his pistol
- 131: Only Ram Lal knew of the real destination of the lucky man
- 132: The balance due by Berthe Louison
- 133: Ram Lal must save his life and protect the drafts
- 134: Hugh Johnstone murdered by persons unknown at Delhi
- 135: He has passed Brindisi already
- 136: And Alixe Delavigne's eyes were downcast and dreamy
- 137: Was Alixe Delavigne in the retreat chosen by the Viceroy
- 138: Alixe Delavigne bowed her head in a mute assent
- 139: What the devil is Berthe Louison up to now
- 140: And come back by Granville to Boulogne
- 141: Nadine saw a four wheeler rattle away over the lawn
- 142: Did ye gain aught in knowledge of Thibet in your Indian life
- 143: Take yere money and yere letters
- 144: But to get there myself to Thibet
- 145: I can reward both you and Euphrosyne
- 146: Nadine Johnstone locked her doors
- 147: She'll no fule with Janet Fairbarn
- 148: And hidden herself in the leafy bowers of Rosebank Villa
- 149: Released Nadine to her own devices
- 150: While Anstruther drew Alixe Delavigne aside
- 151: Mysterious young potentate is Prince Djiddin
- 152: And complexions aid the makeup
- 153: All that pleasing task is left to Prince Djiddin
- 154: Anstruther cried as he kissed her slender hand
- 155: As when he had bade adieu to Captain Anstruther
- 156: Agnostically demanded Jack Blunt
- 157: I can watch them from the public at Rozel Pier
- 158: I could show no honest title through Ram Lal
- 159: Stating that a learned Moonshee or Pundit
- 160: And the ominous silence of Captain Anson Anstruther
- 161: And I'll instantly meet you at Granville
- 162: I cannot dare to brave this Anstruther
- 163: If Justine only holds to my alibi
- 164: And if he should denounce me privately to the Viceroy
- 165: How lying the mute pleading of her eyes
- 166: Self accusing man had not sought
- 167: Write one letter to Hotel Binda
- 168: Cheerfully muttered Alan Hawke
- 169: And Esquimaux dialects on the handsome Prince Djiddin
- 170: Prince Djiddin paced solemnly back toward the Banker's Folly
- 171: Lest Prince Djiddin should decamp in his absence
- 172: While the happy Moonshee escaped to his own fair bride
- 173: And this second sum you can put up with Etienne Garcin
- 174: The Hirondelle will not be seen by any one
- 175: The Hirondelle is riding safe and easy around the point
- 176: Heliers had given up their whist
- 177: Prince Djiddin murmured as he closed his eyes
- 178: He turned into the little cavern
- 179: Here's ten pounds to drive us over to Rozel
- 180: The officer seized in his left hand the Sikh tulwar
- 181: Induced the frightened Janet Fairbarn to open at last
- 182: At the anglicized Prince Djiddin
- 183: Justine Delande is to have all
- 184: She got up into the barrack room
- 185: Fiercely addressing Major Hardwicke
- 186: Was led by Janet Fairbarn to the apartments of the heiress
- 187: Heliers was simply convulsed in a useless fever of curiosity
- 188: Prayerfully whispered Alaric Hobbs
- 189: The young soldiers joined General Wragge
- 190: Nadine Johnstone listened to Janet Fairbarn's sobbing plaint
- 191: Nadine Johnstone sprang lightly into the carriage
- 192: With General Wragge as sole escort
- 193: As they drove down to Edgemere
- 194: After the week of quiet at Rosebank
- 195: Awaiting the return of the wanderers from Jitomir