I may mention that the misfortunes of his comrade Charters are nearly similar to those which befel an officer of the 15th Hussars prior to the war in the Peninsula; and that the dark story and death of the engineer Monjoy and of Madame d'Escombas formed one of the causes célèbres before the Parliament of Paris during the middle of the last century.
EDINBURGH, 1st May, 1864.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAP.
I. [BY THE WAYSIDE]
II. [RUTH WYLIE]
III. [THE SEQUEL]
IV. [MY COUSIN TONY]
V. [THE INN]
VI. [ENLISTMENT]
VII. [MY COMRADES]
VIII. [HEAD QUARTERS]
IX. [MY HOPE FOR THE FUTURE]
X. [THE FRENCH DESERTERS]
XI. [WANDSWORTH COMMON]
XII. [THE RACE]
XIII. [THE HANDKERCHIEF]
XIV. [THE RED LION AT GUILDFORD]
XV. [SAIL FOR FRANCE]
XVI. [THE LANDING AT CANCALLE]
XVII. [THE VIDETTE]
XVIII. [HALT AT ST. SERVAND]
XIX. [THE SACK OF ST. SOLIDORE]
XX. [AN EPISODE]
XXI. [JACQUELINE]