PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE GENERAL LITERATURE
COMMITTEE.
LONDON:
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
[Prologue]—"Under which King?"
I. [Vae Victis!]
II. [A Noble Enemy]
III. [The End of a Regicide]
IV. [The Pleasant Isle of Avès]
V. [Hidden Worth]
VI. [An Old Acquaintance]
VII. [Fate at Work]
VIII. [The Queen returns to Hunstanton]
IX. [A Precious Thing discovered late]
X. [Escape]
XI. [A Candid Minister]
XII. [The Ghost of Hunstanton Place]
XIII. [A Visionary]
XIV. [Fate's Sequel]
[Notes]
A LOST LEADER.
PROLOGUE.
"UNDER WHICH KING?"
One December evening, in the year 1648, the little town of Farnham showed unusual signs of life. Troopers were dismounting and leading their horses away to their stables, or were lounging at the doors of the houses where they were quartered, and a crowd of curious country folk and villagers gathered to stare at them, and even to put questions to the more affable-looking of the steel-coated soldiers.
The press was greatest round the entrance of a house of the better class that stood back from the street with all the dignity that a flagged forecourt and a couple of high brick gate-pillars could lend it.