Chapter I: Front Matter

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

CHARLES S BENTLEY
AND
F KIMBALL SCRIBNER

The Fifth of November
_A Romance of the Stuarts_

By
Charles S. Bentley and
F. Kimball Scribner

"No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose"
--Thomas Moore.

Chicago and New York:
Rand, McNally & Company,
Publishers.

Copyright, 1898, by Rand, McNally & Co.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. WHAT BEFELL AT THE SIGN OF THE LEOPARD. 1
II. IN THE SHADOW OF ST. PAUL. 11
III. THE HOME-COMING OF GUIDO FAWKES. 21
IV. THE SUPERIOR OF THE JESUITS. 33
V. WHY MASTER FAWKES WAS SUMMONED TO ENGLAND. 42
VI. "THE WISEST FOOL IN CHRISTENDOM." 52
VII. THE VISCOUNT EFFINGSTON. 61
VIII. IN THE GARDEN OF THE GENTLEMAN-PENSIONER. 73
IX. GARNET AND THE KING. 81
X. THE FORGING OF THE THUNDERBOLT. 89
XI. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. 97
XII. WHAT THE MOON SAW. 108
XIII. AT THE SIGN OF THE LEOPARD. 119
XIV. IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. 130
XV. "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." 140
XVI. MONTEAGLE AND SALISBURY. 152
XVII. SOWING THE WIND. 158
XVIII. THE CELLAR. 167
XIX. THE NOTE OF WARNING. 178
XX. ON THE STROKE OF ELEVEN. 184
XXI. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. 192
XXII. FAWKES BEFORE THE KING. 200
XXIII. THE BANQUET. 207
XXIV. "IN THE KING'S NAME." 213
XXV. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. 222

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

It has not been the intention of the authors of "The Fifth of November" to write an historical novel, though, throughout the story, they have endeavored to follow as closely as was consistent with the plot in hand, the historical facts collected by the various writers who have made the nature and workings of the "Gunpowder Plot" a special study. With one or two exceptions, the characters in the present romance have been borrowed from history, and, save in Chapters XXI and XXII, the lines of the story have followed those traced by the hand of the historian.

In presenting to the public this "Romance of the Stuarts," indebtedness is acknowledged by the writers to Professor S. R. Gardiner's "What the Gunpowder Plot Was," and also to the history of England as set forth by Knight, Hume, Froude and Ridpath.

THE AUTHORS.
New York, February, 1898.

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.