Tekla: A Romance of Love and War
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TEKLA
A ROMANCE OF LOVE AND WAR
ROBERT BARR
Author of A CHICAGO PRINCESS, THE MUTABLE MANY, Etc.
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK
Copyright, 1898 By ROBERT BARR
THE COUNTESS LAURA
TEKLA.
The Romans had long since departed, but their handiwork remained—a thin line laid like a whiplash across the broad country—a road. It extended northwestward from Frankfort and passed, as straight as might be, through the almost trackless forest that lay to the south of Moselle; for the great highway-builders had little patience with time-consuming curves; thus the road ranged over hill and down dale without shirking whatever came before it. Nearing the western terminus, it passed along high lands, through a level unbroken forest. A wayfarer, after travelling many monotonous leagues, came suddenly to an opening in the timber, and found himself on the brow of a hill, confronted with a scene amazing in extent, well calculated to arrest his progress and cause him to regard with admiration, the wide spread landscape beneath and beyond. The scene was the more startling that it burst unexpectedly on the view, after miles of trees that seemed innumerable, hemming in, with their unvarying cloak of green, the outlook of the traveller.
Robert Barr
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TEKLA
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE EMPEROR ENTERS TREVES.
CHAPTER II. THE ARCHER INTRODUCES HIMSELF.
CHAPTER III. LISTENERS HEAR LITTLE GOOD OF THEMSELVES.
CHAPTER IV. THE EMPEROR DISAPPEARS.
CHAPTER V. LOVE LEADS THE WAY.
CHAPTER VI. AN UNWISHED-FOR MARRIAGE DAY.
CHAPTER VII. THE FLIGHT OF THE COUNTESS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE RAPIER AND THE BROADSWORD.
CHAPTER IX. A PALATIAL PRISON.
CHAPTER X. THE INTERCEPTED FUGITIVES.
CHAPTER XI. IN QUEST OF A WIFE WITH A TROOP OF HORSE.
CHAPTER XII. CUPID'S BOW GIVES PLACE TO THE ARCHER'S.
CHAPTER XIII. THE BLACK COUNT IS PERSUADED NOT TO HANG HIS EMPEROR.
CHAPTER XIV. A RELUCTANT WELCOME.
CHAPTER XV. CASTLE THURON MAKES A FULL MEAL.
CHAPTER XVI. THE COUNTESS TRIES TO TAME THE BEAR.
CHAPTER XVII. THE ENVOY'S DISASTROUS RETURN.
CHAPTER XVIII. A TWO-HANDED SWORD TEACHES DEPORTMENT.
CHAPTER XIX. A MAN AND A WOMAN MEET BY TORCHLIGHT.
CHAPTER XX. A BREAKFAST ON THE TOP OF THE SOUTH TOWER.
CHAPTER XXI. AN EXPERIMENT IN DIPLOMACY.
CHAPTER XXII. THE FIRST ATTACK ON CASTLE THURON.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TWO ARCHBISHOPS FALL OUT.
CHAPTER XXIV. COUNT BERTRICH EXPLAINS HIS FAILURE.
CHAPTER XXV. THE SECOND ASSAULT ON THE CASTLE.
CHAPTER XXVI. AN ILLUMINATED NIGHT ATTACK ON THURON.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE TWO YEARS' SIEGE BEGINS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECOND ARCHER ANNOUNCES HIMSELF.
CHAPTER XXIX. CONRAD VENTURES HIS LIFE FOR HIS LOVE.
CHAPTER XXX. THE STRUGGLE IN THE DARK.
CHAPTER XXXI. BRAVE NEWS OF THE EMPEROR.
CHAPTER XXXII. "FOR YOUR LOVE I WOULD DEFY FATE."
CHAPTER XXXIII. A GRIM INTERRUPTION TO A LOVER'S MEETING.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE BLACK COUNT'S DEFIANCE.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE NIGHT ESCAPE OF THE EMPEROR.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE FIVE BILLETLESS ARROWS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TRAITOR AND HIS PRICE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE INCOGNITO FALLS.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE EMPEROR AT THE HEAD OF HIS ARMY.
CHAPTER XL. THE ARCHBISHOPS ENVIRONED WITH A RING OF IRON.
CHAPTER XLI. "WHY HAVE YOU DARED TO LEVY WAR?"
CHAPTER XLII. TEKLA REPLENISHES HER WARDROBE.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE COUNTESS AND THE EMPEROR.
