THE PUPPET CROWN
by Harold MacGrath
TO THE MEMORY OF THAT GOOD FRIEND
AND
COMRADE OF MY YOUTH
MY FATHER
CONTENTS
[ CHAPTER I. ] THE SCEPTER WHICH WAS A STICK
[ CHAPTER II. ] THE COUP D'ETAT OF COUSIN JOSEF
[ CHAPTER III. ] AN EPISODE TEN YEARS AFTER
[ CHAPTER IV. ] AN ADVENTURE WITH ROYALTY
[ CHAPTER V. ] BEHIND THE PUPPET BOOTH
[ CHAPTER VI. ] MADEMOISELLE OF THE VEIL
[ CHAPTER VII. ] SOME DIALOGUE, A SPRAINED ANKLE, AND SOME SOLDIERS
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] THE RED CHATEAU
[ CHAPTER IX. ] NOTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN A HOUSE PARTY
[ CHAPTER X. ] BEING OF LONG RIDES, MAIDS, KISSES AND MESSAGES
[ CHAPTER XI. ] THE DENOUEMENT
[ CHAPTER XII. ] WHOM THE GODS DESTROY AND A FEW OTHERS
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] BEING OF COMPLICATIONS NOT RECKONED ON
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] QUI M'AIME, AIME MON CHIEN
[ CHAPTER XV. ] IN WHICH FORTUNE BECOMES CARELESS AND PRODIGAL
[ CHAPTER XVI. ] WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ARCHBISHOP'S PALACE AND AFTER
[ CHAPTER XVII. ] SOME PASSAGES AT ARMS
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ] A MINOR CHORD AND A CHANGE OF MOVEMENT
[ CHAPTER XIX. ] A CHANCE RIDE IN THE NIGHT
[ CHAPTER XX. ] THE LAST STAND OF A BAD SERVANT
[ CHAPTER XXI. ] A COURT FETE AT THE RED CHATEAU
[ CHAPTER XXII. ] IN WHICH MAURICE RECURS TO OFFENBACH
[ CHAPTER XXIII. ] A GAME OF POKER AND THE STAKES
[ CHAPTER XXIV. ] THE PRISONER OF THE RED CHATEAU
[ CHAPTER XXV. ] THE FORTUNES OF WAR
[ CHAPTER XXVI. ] A PAGE FROM TASSO
[ CHAPTER XXVII. ] WORMWOOD AND LEES
[ CHAPTER XXVIII. ] INTO THE HANDS OF AUSTRIA
[ CHAPTER XXIX. ] INTO STILL WATERS AND SILENCE