



Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive







Transcriber's notes:

   1. Page scan source:
      http://www.archive.org/details/chevalierdauriac00leverich

   2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].






                                 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 rare
moments of leisure that an Indian official can afford. Bits of time
were snatched here and there, and much, perhaps too much, reliance has
had to be placed on memory, for books there were few or none to refer
to. 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 an
ineffectual swoop at a cockroach, fell into the very hungry author's
soup and