To
Monsieur le Capitaine Dadvisard
de la Cavalerie Française
Paris, 1912
CONTENTS
Chapter
I [A Serious Event]
II [Julia Redmond]
III [A Second Invitation]
IV [The Dog Pays]
V [The Golden Autumn]
VI [Ordered Away]
VII [A Soldier's Dog]
VIII [Homesick]
IX [The Fortunes of War]
X [Together Again]
XI [A Sacred Trust]
XII [The News From Africa]
XIII [One Dog's Day]
XIV [An American Girl]
XV [Julia's Romance]
XVI [The Duke in Doubt]
XVII [Out of the Desert]
XVIII [Two Lovely Women]
XIX [The Man in Rags]
XX [Julia Decides]
XXI [Master and Friend]
XXII [Into the Desert]
XXIII [Two Love Stories]
XXIV [The Meeting]
XXV [As Handsome Does]
XXVI [Congratulations]
XXVII [Valor in Retrospect]
XXVIII [Happiness]
HIS LOVE STORY
CHAPTER I
A SERIOUS EVENT
Le Comte de Sabron, in the undress uniform of captain in the —— Cavalry, sat smoking and thinking.... What is the use of being thirty years old with the brevet of captain and much distinction of family if you are a poor man—in short, what is the good of anything if you are alone in the world and no one cares what becomes of you?
He rang his bell, and when his ordonnance appeared, said sharply:
"Que diable is the noise in the stable, Brunet? Don't you know that when I smoke at this hour all Tarascon must be kept utterly silent?"