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  A Dash For a Throne

  By Arthur W. Marchmont

  Author of "By Right of Sword," etc.

  Illustrated by D. Murray Smith

  NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK HUTCHINSON & CO., LONDON 1899

  COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY

  HE RAISED HIS RIGHT HAND ON HIGH]

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. My Death 9

  II. A Gate of Life 20

  III. "As Your Highness Will" 33

  IV. "You are Head of the House Now" 46

  V. The Scent of Treachery 57

  VI. "My Cousin" 69

  VII. At Munich 81

  VIII. Praga's Story 94

  IX. My Plan of Campaign 105

  X. A Council of Conspiracy 115

  XI. "Even One Subject May Make a Kingdom" 127

  XII. My Scheme Develops 139

  XIII. A Check 152

  XIV. The Abduction 164

  XV. A Treacherous Attack 175

  XVI. The Ball at the Palace 187

  XVII. Checkmate 198

  XVIII. After the Abduction 207

  XIX. The Maid's Story 219

  XX. Covering My Defeat 229

  XXI. News of Minna 239

  XXII. At Landsberg 249

  XXIII. The Pursuit 260

  XXIV. The Meeting 272

  XXV. "I am Not the Prince" 283

  XXVI. Flight 296

  XXVII. An Old Enemy 309

  XXVIII. The Emperor 323

  XXIX. Count von Rudloff 336

  XXX. The End 343

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE

  He flung his wine right at my face 11

  She turned and bowed to me with a smile 50

  Grasping my stick with both hands, I clenched my teeth, and rushed upon the villains from behind 91

  He raised his right hand on high 124

  I leaned out as far as I dared, and, taking careful aim, fired 184

  Instead of Minna, the face of Clara Weylin met mine 206

  "I was thinking--cousin" 288

  The horse had fallen on him and rolled over him 293

  A DASH FOR A THRONE