The Trail of the Sword, Volume 1

Gilbert Parker

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Title: The Trail of the Sword, Volume 1. Author: Gilbert Parker Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6206] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 23, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English

TRAIL OF THE SWORD By Gilbert Parker

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]

CONTENTS: EPOCH THEFIRST I. AN ENVOYEXTRAORDINARYII. THETHREAT OFA RENEGADEIII. THEFACEAT THEWINDOW IV. THEUPLIFTINGOFTHESWORDS V. THEFRUITS OFTHELAW VI. THEKIDNAPPING EPOCH THESECOND VII. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL VIII. AS SEEN THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLYIX. TO THEPORCH OFTHEWORLD X. QUI VIVE! XI. WITH THESTRANGEPEOPLEXII. OUT OFTHENET EPOCH THETHIRD XIII. "AS WATER UNTO WINE" XIV. IN WHICH THEHUNTERS AREOUT XV. IN THEMATTER OFBUCKLAW XVI. IN THETREASURE HOUSEXVII. THEGIFT OFA CAPTIVEXVIII. MAIDEN NO MORE EPOCH THE FOURTH XIX. WHICH TELLS OF A BROTHER'S BLOOD CRYING FROM THE GROUND XX. A TRAP IS SET XXI. AN UNTOWARD MESSENGER XXII. FROM TIGER'S CLAW TO LION'S MOUTH XXIII. AT THEGATES OFMISFORTUNEXXIV. IN WHICH THESWORD IS SHEATHED

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DEDICATION My Dear Father: Once, many years ago, in a kind of despair, you were impelled to say that I would "never be anything but a rascally lawyer." This, it may be, sat upon your conscience, for later you turned me gravely towards Paley and the Thirty-nine Articles; and yet I know that in your deepest soldier's heart, you really pictured me, how unavailingly, in scarlet and pipe-clay, and with sabre, like yourself in youth and manhood. In all I disappointed you, for I never had a brief or a parish, and it was another son of yours who carried on your military hopes. But as some faint apology—I almost dare hope some recompense for what must have seemed wilfulness, I send you now this story of a British soldier and his "dear maid," which has for its background the old city of Quebec, whose high ramparts you walked first sixty years ago; and for setting, the beginning of those valiant fightings, which, as I have heard you say, "through God's providence and James Wolfe, gave England her best possession." You will, I feel sure, quarrel with the fashion of my campaigns, and be troubled by my anachronisms; but I beg you to remember that long ago you gave my young mind much distress when you told that wonderful story, how you, one man, "surrounded" a dozen enemies, and drove them prisoners to headquarters. "Surrounded" may have been mere lack of precision, but it serves my turn now, as you see. You once were —and I am precise here—a gallant swordsman: there are legends yet of your doings with a crack Dublin bully. Well, in the last chapter of this tale you shall find a duel which will perhaps recall those early days of this century, when your blood was hot and your hand ready. You would be distrustful of the details of this scene, did I not tell you that, though the voice is Jacob's the hand is another's. Swordsmen are not so many now in the army or out of it, that, among them, Mr. Walter Herrim Pollock's name will have escaped you: so, if you quarrel, let it be with Esau; though, having good reason to be grateful to him, that would cause me sorrow. My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. Believe me, sir, Your affectionate son, GILBERT PARKER. 15th September, 1894,  7 Park Place,  St. James's S.W.

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