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THE MISCHIEF-MAKER
BY
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
AUTHOR OF "THE LIGHTED WAY," "THE TEMPTING OF TAVERNAKE," "HAVOC," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSON BOOTH
1913
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS
II AN INDISCREET LETTER
III A ...

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THE MISCHIEF-MAKER
BY
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
AUTHOR OF "THE LIGHTED WAY," "THE
TEMPTING OF TAVERNAKE," "HAVOC," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSON BOOTH
1913CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER
I SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS
II AN INDISCREET LETTER
III A RUINED CAREER
IV A BUNCH OF VIOLETS
V A SENTIMENTAL EPISODEVI AT THE CAFÉ L'ATHÉNÉE
VII COFFEE FOR THREE
VIII IN PARIS
IX MADAME CHRISTOPHOR
X BETTER ACQUAINTANCE
XI THE TOYMAKER FROM LEIPZIG
XII AT THE RAT MORT
XIII POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM
XIV THE MORNING AFTER
XV BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
XVI "HAVE YOU EVER LOVED?"
XVII KENDRICKS IS HOST
XVIII A MEETING OF SOCIALISTS
XIX AN OFFERXX FALKENBERG ACTSBOOK TWO
CHAPTER
I THE FLIGHT OF LADY ANNE
II "TO OUR NEW SELVES"
III WORK FOR JULIEN
IV A STARTLING DISCLOSURE
V THE FIRST ARTICLE
VI FALKENBERG FAILS
VII LADY ANNE DECLINES
VIII A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IX FOOLHARDY JULIEN
X THE SECOND ATTEMPTXI BY THE PRINCE'S ORDERS
XII DISTRESSING NEWS
XIII ESTERMEN'S DEATH WARRANT
XIV SANCTUARY
XV NEARING A CRISIS
XVI FALKENBERG'S LAST REPORT
XVII DEFEAT FOR FALKENBERG
XVIII THE ONE WAY OUT
XIX ALL ENDS WELLILLUSTRATIONS
"Really," he said, "I thought better of Herr
Freudenberg"
"At least," she reminded him, "you are going to see
Madame
Christophor?"
"Splendid!" he muttered, rising to his feet. "If only I
can do it!"
"Let me present to you Monsieur Bourgan of the
French Detective
Service"
BOOK ONECHAPTER I
SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS
The girl who was dying lay in an invalid chair piled
up with cushions in a sheltered corner of the lawn.
The woman who had come to visit her had
deliberately turned away her head with a
murmured word about the sunshine and the field of
buttercups. Behind them was the little sanitarium, a
gray stone villa built in the style of a château,
overgrown with creepers, and with terraced lawns
stretching down to the sunny corner to which the
girl had been carried earlier in the day. There were
flowers everywhere—beds of hyacinths, and
borders of purple and yellow crocuses. A lilac tree
was bursting into blossom, the breeze was soft and
full of life. Below, beyond the yellow-starred field of
which the woman had spoken, flowed the Seine,
and in the distance one could see the outskirts of
Paris.
"The doctor says I am better," the girl whispered
plaintively. "This morning he was quite cheerful. I
suppose he knows, but it is strange that I should
feel so weak—weaker even day by day. And my
cough—it tears me to pieces all the time."
The woman who was bending over her gulped
something down in her throat and turned her head.
Although older than the invalid whom she had

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