Chapter I: Front Matter

CADETS OF GASCONY

Novels of Love and Adventure

AT ODDS WITH THE REGENT
BY BURTON E. STEVENSON
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50

THE DAUGHTERS OF BABYLON
BY WILSON BARRETT AND ROBERT HICHENS
Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50

WHEN BLADES ARE OUT AND LOVE’S AFIELD
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50

THE LAST BUCCANEER
BY L. COPE CORNFORD
Cloth, $1.50

THE RED MEN OF THE DUSK
THE LOVER FUGITIVES
THE STORY OF A SCOUT
BY JOHN FINNEMORE
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50 each

THE INEVITABLE
BY PHILIP V. MIGHELS
Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50

MLLE. FOUCHETTE
BY CHARLES T. MURRAY
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50

A TAR-HEEL BARON
BY MABELL S. C. PELTON
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50

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CADETS OF GASCONY

Two Stories of Old France

BY
BURTON E. STEVENSON

AUTHOR OF “AT ODDS WITH THE REGENT,” “A SOLDIER
OF VIRGINIA,” “THE HERITAGE,” ETC.

_Illustrated by_
ANNA WHELEN BETTS

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1904

Copyright, 1904
BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

_Published March, 1904_

Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

TO THE
SPIRIT OF YOUTH
OF WHICH MAY WE ALL
PARTAKE

CONTENTS

MARSAN

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--I CHANCE UPON AN ADVENTURE 13

II.--I WALK INTO A HORNET’S NEST 28

III.--I FIND THE KEY TO THE PUZZLE 41

IV.--I MEET A KINDRED SPIRIT 55

V.--THE RIDE TO CADILLAC 67

VI.--I TASTE OF ROQUEFORT’S TEMPER 79

VII.--A VISION IN THE NIGHT 90

VIII.--MARLEON! 104

IX.--THE DEN OF THE WOLF 115

X.--THE QUESTION 125

XI.--ROQUEFORT’S PRICE 135

XII.--A MESSAGE FROM WITHOUT 149

XIII.--THE WHEEL TURNS 162

XIV.--THE DOOR IN THE CLIFF 174

XV.--ROQUEFORT EXACTS A PROMISE 182

XVI.--MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE ROQUEFORT 196

XVII.--A TEN YEARS’ VENGEANCE 202

XVIII.--LIGHT! 214

A CHILD OF THE NIGHT

I.--AN ENCOUNTER IN THE STREETS 223

II.--I FIND MYSELF BROTHER TO AN ENCHANTING GIRL 234

III.--I FIND MY PART A DIFFICULT ONE 242

IV.--IN WHICH I COME TO PARIS 253

V.--M. RIBAUT IS OBDURATE 266

VI.--RIBAUT PLAYS A CARD 276

VII.--I AM FORTUNATE IN FINDING A NEW FRIEND 284

VIII.--I KEEP AN APPOINTMENT 292

IX.--A DESCENT INTO A CESSPOOL 299

X.--MÈRE FOUCHON SCORES 309

XI.--TORTURE 316

XII.--A CHILD OF THE NIGHT 329

XIII.--A NIGHT OF AGONY 339

XIV.--GREATER LOVE THAN MINE 350

XV.--TO THE CHURCH OF ST. LANDRY 358

XVI.--M. D’ARGENSON’S COUP 370

ENVOY 377

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Oh, but he was a man!--a match for both of us almost _Frontispiece_

She came to me shyly 22

My bonds fell from me 98

Who, looking deep into her eyes, could have lacked inspiration? 250

“I forbid the marriage” 372

MARSAN

A ROMANCE OF THE MIDI