Chapter I: Front Matter

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Appletons' Town and Country Library No. 265

FORTUNE'S MY FOE

By J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. ------------------------ Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. ------------------------ Fortune's my Foe.

Mr. Bloundelle-Burton has proved his ability to interest readers so thoroughly that it is sufficient merely to announce this new and entertaining romance. His story moves briskly as usual, and there is a constantly sustained interest and plenty of dramatic action.

The Clash of Arms.

"Well written, and the interest is sustained from the beginning to the end of the tale"--_Brooklyn Eagle_.

"Vividness of detail and rare descriptive power give the story life and excitement."--_Boston Herald_.

Denounced.

"The author of 'Denounced' is second to none in the romantic recounting of the tales of earlier days. A story of the critical times of the vagrant and ambitious Charles I, it is so replete with incident and realistic happenings that one seems translated to the very scenes and days of that troublous era in English history."--_Boston Courier_.

The Scourge of God.

"The story is one of the best in style, construction, information, and graphic power, that have been written in recent years."--_Dial, Chicago_.

In the Day of Adversity.

"Mr. Burton's creative skill is of the kind which must fascinate those who revel in the narratives of Stevenson, Rider Haggard, and Stanley Weyman. Even the author of 'A Gentleman of France' has not surpassed the writer of 'In the Day of Adversity' in the moving interest of his tale."--_St. James's Gazette_.

--------------- D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

FORTUNE'S MY FOE

_A ROMANCE_

BY JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON AUTHOR OF THE SCOURGE OF GOD, THE CLASH OF ARMS, DENOUNCED, IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, ETC.

NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1899

COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1899, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER
PROLOGUE--OFF CARTAGENA.
I.--THE LION AND THE JACKAL.
II.--AN HEIRESS.
III.--A "COUNTRY CLOD."
IV.--AN UNKNOWN VISITOR.
V.--THE HAPPY MAN.
VI.--LOVE'S CONTEST.
VII.--THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.
VIII.--FOREBODINGS.
IX.--THE END OF THE FIRST ACT.
X.--"THE MIGNONNE."
XI.--THE COLONISTS.
XII.--VENGEANCE IS SWEET.
XIII.--A BROKEN SWORD.
XIV.--BUFTON IS IMPLACABLE.
XV.--PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT.
XVI.--WEAVING THE NET.
XVII.--A DISCOVERY.
XVIII.--RUSE CONTRE RUSE.
XIX.--THE SECOND MAN.
XX.--ARIADNE'S COMPASSION.
XXI.--A DIVINE DESPAIR.
XXII.--"AS YE SOW."
XXIII.--QUIBERON

FORTUNE'S MY FOE.