Chapter I: Front Matter

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Transcriber’s Note:

This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details.

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“GERVASE DROPPED NOISELESSLY INTO THE WATER”

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THE CRIMSON SIGN

_A Narrative of the Adventures of
Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime
Lieutenant in Mountjoy´s
Regiment of Foot_

BY
S. R. KEIGHTLEY
AUTHOR OF “THE CAVALIERS”

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1898

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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THE CAVALIERS. A Novel. By S. R. KEIGHTLEY. Illustrated. Post 8vo,
Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50.

“The Cavaliers” is healthy in tone, spirited in treatment, and written in a manner calculated to attract lovers of historical adventure.... A capital book.--_Academy_, London.

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PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. OF WHAT BEFELL ON THE ROAD TO 1
ENNISKILLEN

II. OF THE ENTERTAINMENT THEY HAD AT THE INN 28

III. OF THE WAY MY LORD GALMOY SAT IN 44
JUDGMENT

IV. OF HOW THE VICOMTE PAID HIS DEBT 54

V. OF A MAN´S MEMORY 69

VI. OF HOW THE HEROINE COMES UPON THE STAGE 81

VII. OF THE RESCUE FROM GREAT PERIL 101

VIII. OF THE RETURN TO THE CITY 130

IX. OF HOW CAPTAIN MACPHERSON FULFILLED HIS 151
TRUST

X. OF THE STAND IN THE TRENCHES 159

XI. OF A SERIOUS COMMUNICATION 184

XII. OF A WARM MORNING´S WORK 195

XIII. OF A STRATAGEM OF WAR 208

XIV. OF A GAME OF CHANCE 222

XV. OF HOW THE VICOMTE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO 245
LIFE

XVI. OF A DEED OF TREACHERY 259

XVII. OF A GREAT ADVENTURE 280

XVIII. OF HOW GERVASE REACHED THE SHIPS 304

XIX. OF A STORMY INTERVIEW 313

XX. OF HOW THE GREAT DELIVERANCE WAS WROUGHT 325

XXI. OF HOW THE VICOMTE MADE HIS GREAT 336
RENUNCIATION

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"GERVASE DROPPED NOISELESSLY INTO THE WATER" _Frontispiece_

"THE STRANGER CAUGHT HIS HORSE BY THE REIN" _Facing page_ 62

"SHE STOPPED SHORT AND LOOKED ROUND HER ” 188
CAUTIOUSLY"

“JASPER BUCKLING HIS SWORD ABOUT HIM” ” 254

THE CRIMSON SIGN.