



Produced by Al Haines









MY SWORD'S MY FORTUNE

A STORY OF OLD FRANCE


BY

HERBERT HAYENS




LONDON AND GLASGOW

COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

1904




Contents.


Chapter

      I.  I Go to Paris
     II.  La Boule d'Or
    III.  I Enter the Astrologer's House
     IV.  I Meet the Cardinal
      V.  The Reception at the Luxembourg
     VI.  Was I Mistaken?
    VII.  The Cardinal takes an Evening Walk
   VIII.  The Plot is Discovered
     IX.  I Meet with an Exciting Adventure
      X.  Pillot to the Rescue
     XI.  A Scheme that Went Amiss
    XII.  I have a Narrow Escape
   XIII.  I again Encounter Maubranne
    XIV.  I Fall into a Trap
     XV.  Under Watch and Ward
    XVI.  I become a Prisoner of the Bastille
   XVII.  Free!
  XVIII.  The Fight on the Staircase
    XIX.  I Lose all Trace of Henri
     XX.  News at Last
    XXI.  The Death of Henri
   XXII.  The Mob Rises
  XXIII.  The Ladies Leave Paris
   XXIV.  Captain Courcy Outwitted
    XXV.  I Miss a Grand Opportunity
   XXVI.  "Vive le Roi!"
  XXVII.  The King Visits Raoul
 XXVIII.  "Remember the Porte St. Antoine"
   XXIX.  Mazarin Triumphant



Illustrations


"The air was filled with the clatter of steel."

"The nobleman caught and fixed him."

"Keep this in remembrance of this day."


[Transcriber's notes:

Gaps in the source book's page numbering indicate that four
illustrations were missing.  Physical damage seems to indicate that the
frontispiece may also have been missing.  Since there was no list of
illustrations in the book, it is not known what their captions were.
Short transcriber's notes indicate the locations of the missing
illustrations.]




CHAPTER I.

I Go to Paris.

"Let the boy go to Paris," exclaimed our guest, Roland Belloc.  "I
warrant he'll find a path that will lead him to fortune."

"He is young," said my father doubtfully.

"He will be killed," cried my mother, while I stood upright against the
wall and looked at Roland gratefully.

It was in 1650, in