

E-text prepared by Al Haines



A QUEEN'S ERROR

by

CAPTAIN HENRY CURTIES

Author of

  "The Blood Bond" "The Idol of the King"
  "Tears of Angels" "The Queen's Gate Mystery"
  "Out of the Shadows" Etc. Etc.







London
F. V. White & Co. Ltd.
17 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.
1911




CONTENTS

CHAP.

     I. A STRANGE VISIT
    II. THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE
   III. THE SECOND VISIT AND ITS RESULT
    IV. I AM DETAINED
     V. ARRESTED
    VI. PUT TO THE TORTURE
   VII. CRUFT'S FOLLY
  VIII. SANDRINGHAM
    IX. THE DUKE OF RITTERSHEIM
     X. THE PLOT THAT FAILED
    XI. THE _OCEANA_
   XII. HELD UP
  XIII. DON JUAN D'ALTA
   XIV. THE CASKET
    XV. THE ABBOT OF SAN JUAN
   XVI. THE CONFESSION OF BROOKS
  XVII. THE STEEL SAFE
 XVIII. THE OLD GRAVEYARD
   XIX. THE STRUGGLE IN THE TUNNEL
    XX. THE DEPARTURE OF THE DUKE
   XXI. MADAME LA COMTESSE
  XXII. THE QUEEN'S ERROR
 XXIII. THE QUEEN'S ATONEMENT




TO

SWEET KATHLEEN

OF

BATH




A QUEEN'S ERROR


CHAPTER I

A STRANGE VISIT

I turned the corner abruptly and found myself in a long, dreary street;
looking in the semi-fog and drizzle more desolate than those dismal
old-world streets of Bath I had passed