CONTENTS

PAGE
Prologue: Nantes, 1789 [11]
BOOK ONE: BATH, 1793
CHAPTER
I.The Moor[43]
II.The Bottom Inn[50]
III.The Assembly Rooms[78]
IV.The Father[100]
V.The Nest[109]
VI.The Scarlet Pimpernel[123]
VII.Marguerite[130]
VIII.The Road to Portishead[134]
IX.The Coast of France[147]
BOOK TWO: NANTES, DECEMBER, 1793
I.The Tiger's Lair[163]
II.Le Bouffay[195]
III.The Fowlers[212]
IV.The Net[234]
V.The Message of Hope[256]
VI.The Rat Mort[267]
VII.The Fracas in the Tavern[279]
VIII.The English Adventurers[299]
IX.The Proconsul[313]
X.Lord Tony[327]


PROLOGUE

NANTES, 1789