Arthur Conan Doyle
The Refugees
Historical Novel
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-1937-7
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Man From America
Chapter 2. A Monarch in Deshabille
Chapter 3. The Holding of the Door
Chapter 4. The Father of His People
Chapter 7. The New World and the Old
Chapter 10. An Eclipse at Versailles
Chapter 13. The King Has Ideas
Chapter 15. The Midnight Mission
Chapter 16. “When the Devil drives.”
Chapter 17. The Dungeon of Portillac
Chapter 18. A Night of Surprises
Chapter 19. In the King’s Cabinet
Chapter 20. The Two Francoises
Chapter 21. The Man in the Caleche
Chapter 22. The Scaffold of Portillac
Chapter 23. The Fall of the Catinats
Chapter 24. The Start of the “golden Rod.”
Chapter 25. A Boat of the Dead
Chapter 27. A Dwindling Island
Chapter 28. In the Pool of Quebec
Chapter 29. The Voice at the Port-hole
Chapter 32. The Lord of Sainte Marie
Chapter 33. The Slaying of Brown Moose
Chapter 35. The Tapping of Death
Chapter 36. The Taking of the Stockade
Chapter 37. The Coming of the Friar
Chapter 38. The Dining Hall of Sainte Marie
Part 1.
In the Old World
Chapter 1.
The Man From America
It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms—three caltrops gules upon a field argent—let into the diamond-paned glass. Outside there projected a stout iron rod, from which hung a gilded miniature of a bale of wool which swung and squeaked with every puff of wind. Beyond that again were the houses of the other side, high, narrow, and prim, slashed with diagonal wood-work in front, and