A MODERN MERCENARY

A MODERN MERCENARY

BY

K. AND HESKETH PRICHARD

[E. AND H. HERON]

NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 1902
Copyright, 1899, by
DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Lieutenant of Frontier Cavalry
• A Gentleman of the Guard
• The Gentlemen of the Guard
• Danger Signals
• Good Luck and a Firefly
• The Cloister of St. Anthony
• One Woman's Diplomacy
• A Question of the Guard
• The Castle of Sagan
• Count Simon of Sagan
• A Counsel of Expediency
• Anthony Unziar
• Love in Two Shades
• Half a Promise
• Colendorp
• 'With Your Lips to the Hurt'
• Iris
• The Sword of Unziar
• In Diplomatic Relations
• Under the Pines
• Love's Beggar
• In Love with Honour
• How Rallywood had His Orders
• On the Frontier
• A Question of Two Moralities
• Love's Handicap
• The Man of the Hour
• The Arrest
• The Court-Martial
• 'Upon the Great World's Altar-Stairs'
• Duke Gustave
• For a Season

A MODERN MERCENARY

CHAPTER I.

A LIEUTENANT OF FRONTIER CAVALRY.

During four months of the year the independent State of Maäsau,' we will call it—which is not very noticeable even on the largest sized map of Europe—is tormented by a dry and weary north-east wind. And nowhere is its influence more unpleasantly felt than in the capital, Révonde, which stands shoulder-on to the hustling gales, its stately frontages and noble quays stretching out westwards along the shores of the Kofn almost to where the yellow