Chapter I: Front Matter

A Dash For a Throne

By Arthur W. Marchmont

Author of "By Right of Sword," etc.

Illustrated by
D. Murray Smith

NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK
HUTCHINSON & CO., LONDON
1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. My Death 9

II. A Gate of Life 20

III. "As Your Highness Will" 33

IV. "You are Head of the House Now" 46

V. The Scent of Treachery 57

VI. "My Cousin" 69

VII. At Munich 81

VIII. Praga's Story 94

IX. My Plan of Campaign 105

X. A Council of Conspiracy 115

XI. "Even One Subject May Make a Kingdom" 127

XII. My Scheme Develops 139

XIII. A Check 152

XIV. The Abduction 164

XV. A Treacherous Attack 175

XVI. The Ball at the Palace 187

XVII. Checkmate 198

XVIII. After the Abduction 207

XIX. The Maid's Story 219

XX. Covering My Defeat 229

XXI. News of Minna 239

XXII. At Landsberg 249

XXIII. The Pursuit 260

XXIV. The Meeting 272

XXV. "I am Not the Prince" 283

XXVI. Flight 296

XXVII. An Old Enemy 309

XXVIII. The Emperor 323

XXIX. Count von Rudloff 336

XXX. The End 343

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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He flung his wine right at my face 11

She turned and bowed to me with a smile 50

Grasping my stick with both hands, I clenched
my teeth, and rushed upon the villains from behind 91

He raised his right hand on high 124

I leaned out as far as I dared, and, taking careful
aim, fired 184

Instead of Minna, the face of Clara Weylin met mine 206

"I was thinking--cousin" 288

The horse had fallen on him and rolled over him 293

A DASH FOR A THRONE