Chapter I: Front Matter

RED CAPS AND LILIES

BY KATHARINE ADAMS

MEHITABLE: The story of a school in Paris
THE SILVER TARN: Mehitable in school in England
TOTO AND THE GIFT: A French girl comes to New York
MIDSUMMER: American young people in Sweden
MIDWINTER: Another mystery story of Sweden today
WISP: A girl of Dublin
RED CAPS AND LILIES: Boys and girls during the French Revolution
THISTLE INN: How two girls helped Bonnie Prince Charlie
BLACKTHORN: A romance of Elizabethan England and Ireland

Red Caps and Lilies

BY KATHARINE ADAMS

_Illustrated by_
JAY VAN EVEREN

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1943

COPYRIGHT, 1924,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

All rights reserved—no part of this book may be
reproduced in any form without permission in writing
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to quote brief passages in connection with a review
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Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1924.
Reprinted January, 1925; April, 1926; June, 1927; May, 1928.

Reissued November, 1932.
Reprinted September, 1934.
January, 1936.
February, 1937.
February, 1938.
December, 1938.
February, 1940.
October, 1941.
July, 1943.

_Printed in the United States of America by_
THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY, NEW YORK

_FOR ROSE FILLMORE_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN THE SCHOOLROOM 1
II. MARIE JOSEPHINE’S SECRET 11
III. THE BAL MASQUÉ 22
IV. JEAN 39
V. INSIDE THE COACH 52
VI. AUGUST TENTH, 1792 64
VII. AT LES VIGNES 79
VIII. HUMPHREY TRAIL 101
IX. DIAN 113
X. IN THE SNOWSTORM 124
XI. “THA MUST NOT CRY OUT, LASS” 137
XII. DIAN MAKES A FRIEND 148
XIII. PIGEON VALLEY AGAIN 159
XIV. WHAT LISLE PUT IN THE CAKE 173
XV. “SHE IS LIKE OUR LITTLE MADEMOISELLE” 193
XVI. MARIE JOSEPHINE IS READY 201
XVII. AT THE OLD GREEN MILL-INN 217
XVIII. VIVI SEES THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GATES 232
XIX. IN THE BAKERY SHOP AND OUT OF IT 245
XX. LISLE SEEKS ADVENTURE 256
XXI. IN THE HIDDEN CELLAR 268
XXII. CHAMPAR TO THE RESCUE 288
XXIII. IN GREAT-AUNT HORTENSE’S HOUSE 302
XXIV. THROUGH THE GATES 318
XXV. OUT OF THE MIST 339

ILLUSTRATIONS

AT THE OLD GREEN MILL-INN _Frontispiece_
PAGE
MARIE JOSEPHINE 2
FLAMBEAU 16
LISLE 28
JEAN 40
LE PONT 62
HUMPHREY TRAIL 74
CÉCILE 82
BERTRAN 98
PINCE NEZ 118
GRIGGE 126
DIAN 150
VIVI 194

RED CAPS AND LILIES