A Romance of Old Cambray
by Baroness Orczy
London Hodder and
Stoughton and at New
York and Toronto
To
MY SON
JOHN MONTAGU ORCZY BARSTOW
2nd Lieut. 17th Lancers
I dedicate to you this story of the brave days of OldCambray, as a token of fervent prayer that the valiantcity will once again be freed from the thrall of foreignfoes by your gallant comrades in arms, as she was inthose far-off troublous times, which were so full ofheroism and of romance.
EMMUSKA ORCZY
BEARSTED, 1918.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I How Messire Gilles de Crohin went for anExcursion into the Land of Dreams
II How a Noble Prince practised the Gentle Artof Procrastination
III How a Clever Woman outwitted an Obstinate Man
IV How 'Monsieur' kept his Word
V What Marguerite of Navarre did when she heard the News
VI What Monseigneur d'Inchy and Messire Gillesde Crohin Thought of One Another
VII Why Madame Jacqueline was so Late in Getting to Bed
VIII What Became of the Lilies
IX How Messire Gilles was Reminded of a Dream
XII How Two Letters came to be Written
XIII How Madame Jacqueline was Gravely Puzzled
XIV Which Treats of the Discomfiture of M. de Landas
XV How M. de Landas Practised the Gentle Art of Treachery
XVI What News Maître Jehan brought back with Him
XVII How Messire de Landas' Treachery bore Fruit
XVIII How a Second Awakening may be more Bitter than the First
XIX What Jacqueline was Forced to Hear
XX How More than one Plot was Hatched
XXI How Some of these Succeeded—
XXII While Others Failed
XXIII While Traitors are at Work
XXV How Cambray Starved and Endured
XXVI What Value a Valois Prince Set upon his Word