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A Dash For a Throne
By Arthur W. Marchmont
Author of "By Right of Sword," etc.
Illustrated by D. Murray Smith
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK HUTCHINSON & CO., LONDON 1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
HE RAISED HIS RIGHT HAND ON HIGH]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. My Death 9
II. A Gate of Life 20
III. "As Your Highness Will" 33
IV. "You are Head of the House Now" 46
V. The Scent of Treachery 57
VI. "My Cousin" 69
VII. At Munich 81
VIII. Praga's Story 94
IX. My Plan of Campaign 105
X. A Council of Conspiracy 115
XI. "Even One Subject May Make a Kingdom" 127
XII. My Scheme Develops 139
XIII. A Check 152
XIV. The Abduction 164
XV. A Treacherous Attack 175
XVI. The Ball at the Palace 187
XVII. Checkmate 198
XVIII. After the Abduction 207
XIX. The Maid's Story 219
XX. Covering My Defeat 229
XXI. News of Minna 239
XXII. At Landsberg 249
XXIII. The Pursuit 260
XXIV. The Meeting 272
XXV. "I am Not the Prince" 283
XXVI. Flight 296
XXVII. An Old Enemy 309
XXVIII. The Emperor 323
XXIX. Count von Rudloff 336
XXX. The End 343
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
He flung his wine right at my face 11
She turned and bowed to me with a smile 50
Grasping my stick with both hands, I clenched my teeth, and rushed upon the villains from behind 91
He raised his right hand on high 124
I leaned out as far as I dared, and, taking careful aim, fired 184
Instead of Minna, the face of Clara Weylin met mine 206
"I was thinking--cousin" 288
The horse had fallen on him and rolled over him 293
A DASH FOR A THRONE