The Game and the Candle

The Game and the Candle

CHAPTER I. The Decision CHAPTER II. The Key to the Door CHAPTER III. His Royal Highness CHAPTER IV. The Bond CHAPTER V. The New Day CHAPTER VI. "The King is DeadLong Live the King" CHAPTER VII. Allegiance CHAPTER VIII. To Meet the Emperor CHAPTER IX. Guinevere of the South CHAPTER X. A Stanief's Own CHAPTER XI. In the Regent's Study CHAPTER XII. The Turn in the Road CHAPTER XIII. The Intervention of Adrian CHAPTER XIV. The Ordeal CHAPTER XV. At the Gates of Change CHAPTER XVI. Fire Lilies CHAPTER XVII. An Arabian Night CHAPTER XVIII. The Last Week CHAPTER XIX. Adrian's Day CHAPTER XX. Closed Under the clear California moonlight the jade-green lawns and terraces dropped one below the other to the distant road. Through them writhed the long serpentine drive and paths; dotted over them stood dark masses of flowering bushes or trees, with here and there the snowy gleam of a statue; over all floated the rhythmic tinkle of the central fountain. Untroubled calm was the spirit of the place, hereditary comfort. "We must find not a little money, but a fortune, and we must find it in six months," John answered, his low voice just reaching his listener. "There is no way to earn it, we know. Inside the law there are ways to acquire it. Wall Street, for instance; a new popular song or two, an inexplicable conjuring trick, or a fresh breakfast food. But we have no such talents, you and I; we are just the ordinary gentlemen of leisure,dilettanti. We are useless, within the limits set for us. Outside the limits, outside the law" ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 35740
Author: Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
Release Date: Apr 1, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Johnson, P. D