



Produced by Al Haines









[Frontispiece: "'By God! d'Argenton, we win in the end,' he broke out,
shaking his finger at me."]




  THE
  KING'S SCAPEGOAT


  BY

  HAMILTON DRUMMOND

  AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN HOUSES," "A MAN'S FEAR," ETC., ETC.



  _FRONTISPIECE BY CYRUS CUNEO_



  TORONTO
  THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED
  1905




  CONTENTS

  CHAP.

  I My Claim to be heard for Truth's Sake
  II The Bruisings of a Friend
  III Fire and Sack
  IV Babette
  V Paris in "Eighty-Three"
  VI The Muse in Draggled Skirts
  VII The Shrewdest Brain in France
  VIII The Doors of the Louvre only open Inwards
  IX How I met Mademoiselle the Second Time
  X Plessis-les-Tours
  XI The Plot of the Four Nations
  XII Monseigneur's Counterplot
  XIII His Most Christian Majesty
  XIV Monsieur de Commines Explains
  XX A Lesson in Diplomacy
  XXI A Mission of Peace
  XXII South from Plessis
  XVIII Count Gaston de Foix
  XIX Mademoiselle Suzanne, _Gouvernante_
  XX What Happened at the Grey Leap
  XXI "I Trust You, Come what May"
  XXII The Message of a Foot of String
  XXIII A Rose of Promise
  XXIV Jean Volran, Tapster, and Translator of Latin
  XXV In What Way the King Sought the Peace of Navarre
  XXVI The Justice Hall in Morsigny
  XXVII "God Keep You,