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The

CHEVALIER D'AURIAC

BY

S. LEVETT YEATS

AUTHOR OF "THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI" ETC.

NEW YORK
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
LONDON AND BOMBAY
1897

Copyright, 1896 and 1897
By S. LEVETT YEATS

All rights reserved.

FIRST EDITION, MARCH, 1897
REPRINTED, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER, 1897

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

THE CHEVALIER D'AURIAC

TO THE

CHUMMERY OF THE PALMS

I DEDICATE THIS, IN MEMORY OF CERTAIN

RED-HOT DAYS

S. L. Y.

PREFACE

This story, like its predecessor, has been written in those raremoments of leisure that an Indian official can afford. Bits of timewere snatched here and there, and much, perhaps too much, reliance hashad to be placed on memory, for books there were few or none to referto. Occasionally, too, inspiration was somewhat rudely interrupted.Notably in one instance, in the Traveller's Bungalow at Hassan Abdal(Moore's Lalla Rookh was buried hard by), when a bat, after making anineffectual swoop at a cockroach, fell into the very hungry author'ssoup and put an end to dinner and to fancy. There is an anachronism inthe tale, in which the writer finds he has sinned with M. C. deRemusat in "Le Saint-Barthélemy." The only excuse the writer has fornot making the correction is that his object is simply to enable areader to pass away a dull hour.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

The Justice of M. de Rône.

CHAPTER II.

M. de Rône Cannot Read a Cypher.

CHAPTER III.

The Red Cornfield.

CHAPTER IV.

The Chateau de la Bidache.

CHAPTER V.

A Good Deed Comes Home to Roost.

CHAPTER VI.

'Green as a Jade Cup.'

CHAPTER VII.

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