FOR LOVE OF A
BEDOUIN MAID
BY LE VOLEUR,
AUTHOR OF "BY ORDER OF THE BROTHERHOOD" AND
"A DEVIL IN ANGEL'S FORM."
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK:
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1ST EPOCH—GENERAL BUONAPARTE
EPOCH II—THE CONSUL BUONAPARTE
EPOCH III—THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
EPOCH IV—CAPTIVE, BUT EMPEROR STILL
INTRODUCTION.
"That will do; place the cigars upon the table and thenyou can go."
The speaker was Lord Throgmorten, a man of aboutthirty-six years of age, rather stout, with reddish hair andwhiskers and cold, steel-gray eyes. He had just returnedfrom a yachting cruise, upon which he had started uponhis succession to the title about eighteen months before.
The scene was his lordship's chambers in the Albany,and the time the night of the 22nd of July, 1893.
Besides the speaker and the well-trained servant, who,in obedience to the order just given, occupied himself infetching the silver cigar box from its accustomed placeupon the sideboard, lighting the wax taper which stoodby its side and placing them in front of his master, therewere present two other persons. The man on his host'sright near the fireplace, wearing spectacles and with thecareworn look upon his features, was Mr. Percival Phelps,who had been his lordship's guest upon their recent cruise.He was a genial, dapper little man with inordinate vanity,and a slight stammer, when excited; with no income tospeak of, save his stipend as a permanent clerk in the ——Office, a position that, his host said, "suited him down tothe ground."
The man facing him, and looking towards the window,though younger than either of the other two, was alreadycoming into prominent notice and making a fair incomeas sub-editor of that popular paper "The Telescope."
When the servant had left the room, the young manproceeded to address his host in measured tones.
"Since I received your letter, I have been on tenterhooks to hear the story of this wonderful discovery. Youwrote me only a bare line from Southampton on the 12thto say that you had had a pleasant trip, during whichyou had chanced on a most extraordinary find; and thatyou particularly wanted me to dine with you to-night andhear about it. Well, now the man's gone, you can fireoff your intelligenc