The traitor's way

By
S. LEVETT-YEATS
Author of “THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI,” ETC.
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY W. B. GILBERT
NEW YORK · FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY · PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1901, BY FRANK A. MUNSEY
Copyright, 1901, BY S. LEVETT-YEATS
Copyright, 1901, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
CONTENTS
THE TRAITOR’S WAY
I suppose there is no man who would care to have sunlight in all his life; but I hardly think there is one who could have sunk to the deep as I did, and yet have been coward enough to live, as I do—I, Gaspard de Vibrac.
As I write these lines in my study in lonely Vibrac, the four white stars on my shield, carved in relief above the fireplace, seem to burn red with the memory of my shame, and nothing can wipe out that stain in my ’scutcheon—nothing, nothing!