with all my heart and best endeavors in tender appreciation of those sympathies and encouragements which make a pleasure of labor, and life a fruition of every hope and dream


[CONTENTS]

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[The Fleece Tavern]1
II.[Mistress Barbara Dances the Coranto]11
III.[Monsieur Mornay Becomes Unpopular]31
IV.[Monsieur Waits upon a Lady]47
V.[Indecision]68
VI.[The Escape]87
VII.[Barbara]113
VIII.[The Saucy Sally]134
IX.[“Bras-de-Fer”]146
X.[Bras-de-Fer Makes a Capture]165
XI.[The Enemy in the House]184
XII.[Prisoner and Captor]201
XIII.[Monsieur Learns Something]213
XIV.[The Unmasking]231
XV.[Mutiny]249
XVI.[Marooned]268

The
LOVE OF MONSIEUR

[CHAPTER I]
THE FLEECE TAVERN

“Who is this Mornay?”

Captain Cornbury paused to kindle his tobago.