Chapter I: Front Matter

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

WHEN I WAS CZAR.

The _Court Circular_ says:--“There is always something supremely audacious about Mr. Marchmont’s books. This, however, I will say, that for a long evening’s solid enjoyment ‘When I was Czar’ would be hard to beat.”

The _Nottingham Guardian_ says:--“The best story of political intrigue which has been written since ‘The Prisoner of Zenda,’ with which it compares for the irresistible buoyancy by which it is told and the skill in which expectation is maintained on tiptoe till the last move.”

The _Freeman’s Journal_ says:--“A very brilliant work, every page in it displays the dramatic talent of the author and his capacity for writing smart dialogue.”

AN IMPERIAL MARRIAGE.

The _Sporting Life_ says:--“Every page is full of incident and bright dialogue. The characters are strongly and vividly drawn, and the development of the whole story shows the author to be a thorough master of his craft.”

The _Scotsman_ says:--“The action never flags, the romantic element is always paramount, so that the production is bound to appeal successfully to all lovers of spirited fiction.”

The _Notts Guardian_ says:--“The interest is absorbing and cumulative through every chapter, and yet the tale is never overloaded with incident. The vigour and reality of the story does not flag to the last page.”

The _Court Journal_ says:--“One of those intricate webs of intrigue and incident in the weaving of which the author has no equal.”

BY SNARE OF LOVE.

The _Dundee Courier_ says:--“To say that the clever author of ‘When I was Czar’ has eclipsed that stirring romance is to bring one within the sphere of the incredible. But it is true. The present novel is full to overflowing of boundless resource and enterprise, which cannot but rouse even the most blasé of readers.”

The _Daily Mail_ says:--“The story is undoubtedly clever. Mr. Marchmont contrives to invest his most improbable episodes with an air of plausibility, and the net result is an exciting and entertaining tale.”

The _Birmingham Post_ says:--“Mr. Marchmont creates numerous thrilling situations which are worked out with dramatic power, his description of the interior of a Turkish prison, with all its horrors, being a realistic piece of work.”

IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM.

The _Times_:--“Mr. Marchmont’s tales always have plenty of go. He is well up to his standard in this busy and exciting narrative.”

The _Globe_:--“Mr. A. W. Marchmont can always write an exciting story bristling with adventures and hazard, and incidents of all sorts. ‘In the Cause of Freedom’ furnishes a good example of his talent. Vivid, packed with drama, with action that never flags, this novel ought to appeal successfully to all lovers of romantic and spirited fiction.”

The _People’s Saturday Journal_:--“It is an admirable example of the type of exciting fiction for which Mr. Marchmont is justly famous, and lacks nothing in the way of plot and incident.”

THE QUEEN’S ADVOCATE.

The _Daily News_ says:--“Written in a vigorous and lively manner, adventures throng the pages, and the interest is maintained throughout.”

The _Belfast Northern Whig_ says:--“As one book follows another from Mr. Marchmont’s pen we have increased breadth of treatment, more cleverly constructed plots and a closer study of human life and character. His present work affords ample evidence of this.”

_Madam_ says:--“A thrilling story, the scene of which takes us to the heart of the terrible Servian tragedy. We are taken through a veritable maze of adventure, even to that dreadful night of the assassination of the Royal couple. A very readable story.”

A COURIER OF FORTUNE.

The _Daily Telegraph_ says:--“An exciting romance of the ‘cloak and rapier.’ The fun is fast and furious; plot and counterplot, ambushes and fightings, imprisonment and escapes follow each other with a rapidity that holds the reader with a taste for adventure in a state of more or less breathless excitement to the close. Mr. Marchmont has a spirited manner in describing adventure, allowing no pause in the doings for overdescription either of his characters or their surroundings.”

The _Bristol Mercury_ says:--“A very striking picture of France at a period of absolute social and political insecurity. The author’s characters are drawn with such art as to make each a distinct personality. ‘A Courier of Fortune’ is quite one of the liveliest books we have read.”

BY WIT OF WOMAN.

The _Morning Leader_ says:--“A stirring tale of dramatic intensity, and full of movement and exciting adventure. The author has evolved a character worthy to be the wife of Sherlock Holmes. She is the heroine; and what she did not know or could not find out about the Hungarian Patriot Party was not worth knowing.”

The _Standard_ says:--“Mr. Marchmont is one of that small band of authors who can always be depended upon for a distinct note, a novel plot, an original outlook. ‘By Wit of Woman’ is marked by all the characteristic signs of Mr. Marchmont’s work.”

THE LITTLE ANARCHIST.

The _Sheffield Telegraph_ says:--“The reader once inveigled into starting the first chapter is unable to put the book down until he has turned over the last page.”

_Manchester City News_ says:--“It is no whit behind its predecessors in stirring episode, thrilling situation and dramatic power. The story grips in the first few lines and holds the reader’s interest until ‘finis’ is written.”

The _Scotsman_ says:--“A romance, brimful of incident and arousing in the reader a healthy interest that carries him along with never a pause--a vigorous story with elements that fascinate. In invention and workmanship the novel shows no falling off from the high standard of Mr. Marchmont’s earlier books.”

IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE

IN THE NAME OF
THE PEOPLE

By
ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT

_Author of “When I was Czar,” “The
Queen’s Advocate,” etc., etc._

_ILLUSTRATED_

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO
1911

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I AN UNPROPITIOUS START 9

II DEVELOPMENTS 18

III THE RECEPTION 28

IV MIRALDA 38

V INEZ 49

VI DR. BAROSA 59

VII SAMPAYO IS UNEASY 70

VIII MIRALDA’S MASK 79

IX THE INTERROGATION 90

X A DRASTIC TEST 100

XI POLICE METHODS 110

XII THE REAL “M.D.” 121

XIII MIRALDA’S CONFIDENCE 132

XIV ALONE WITH SAMPAYO 143

XV IN THE FLUSH OF SUCCESS 151

XVI BAROSA’S SECRET 161

XVII A LITTLE CHESS PROBLEM 172

XVIII DAGARA’S STORY 180

XIX SPY WORK 190

XX A NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE RIVER 199

XXI PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT 207

XXII READY 216

XXIII ON THE _RAMPALLO_ 226

XXIV A TIGHT CORNER 235

XXV ILL NEWS 244

XXVI IN SIGHT OF VICTORY 253

XXVII DR. BAROSA SCORES 263

XXVIII “YOU SHALL DIE” 272

XXIX MIRALDA’S APPEAL 280

XXX JEALOUSY 289

XXXI A NIGHT OF TORMENT 299

XXXII A HUNDRED LASHES 309

XXXIII THE LUCK TURNS 318

XXXIV ON THE TRACK 327

XXXV THE PROBLEM OF AN EMPTY HOUSE 335

XXXVI UNTIL LIFE’S END 343