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The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian

The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian

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THE COUNT OF NIDECK

"AND THE COUNT WAS STANDING UPRIGHT ON THE WINDOW-SILL.""AND THE COUNT WAS STANDING UPRIGHT ON THE WINDOW-SILL."

The Count of Nideck

Adapted FROM The French

OF

Erckmann: Chartrian

BY

Ralph Browning Fiske

ILLUSTRATED

BY

Victor A. Searles

BOSTON

L. C. Page & Company

INCORPORATED

1897

Copyright, 1897

By L. C. Page and Company

CONTENTS.

I. The summons to the Castle
II. I meet the countess
III. My first night in Hugh's Tower
IV. Knapwurst acquaints me with the genealogy of the Nidecks
V. I breakfast with Odile
VI. The Count unsheathes his claws
VII. Marie Lagoutte relates her experience
VIII. Sebalt tracks the Plague
IX. The Plague in my chamber.—The midnight scene on the Altenberg
X. I lose my way and pass the night in the dwarf's lodge
XI. I am summoned to the Countess's chamber, and make a confession
XII. We chase the Plague.—Her death
XIII. The Baron's story.—He disappears
XIV. The boar hunt
XV. The banquet.—The dwarf explains the mystery of the Nideck house

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"And the Count was standing upright on the window-sill"
"Pointing to a dark object crouching in the snow"
In the portrait gallery
"'Stay!' he howled, 'I have not cursed you yet'"
"'Yonder you see the peak of the Altenberg'"
"Then he would resume his frightful cries"
"I raised myself on my elbow and stared fearfully in the direction"
"I stepped forward, and found myself in the presence of Odile"

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