ORPHANS OF THE STORM [Illustration: LILLIAN AND DOROTHY GISH AS THE TWO ORPHANS IN D. W. GRIFFITH'S ORPHANS OF THE STORM. _Frontispiece_.] ORPHANS OF THE STORM A COMPLETE NOVEL FROM D. W. GRIFFITH'S MOTION PICTURE EPIC ON THE IMMORTAL THEME OF THE TWO ORPHANS NOVELIZED BY HENRY MacMAHON ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES FROM THE PHOTO-PLAY GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK Made in the United States of America Copyright 1922 BY HENRY MacMAHON All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. CONTENTS I. TWO GIRLS OF NORMANDY 1 II. THE JOURNEY TO PARIS 5 III. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE COACH HOUSE 12 IV. THE FETE OF BEL-AIR 20 V. BEL-AIR--(CONTINUED) 27 VI. IN THE FROCHARDS' DEN 33 VII. TANGLED SKEINS 38 VIII. THE HONOR OF THE FAMILY 46 IX. FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE 54 X. THE ATTACK ON DANTON 61 XI. LOUISE BEFORE NOTRE DAME 67 XII. LOVE, MASTER OF HEARTS 72 XIII. THE RECOGNITION 76 XIV. DOWN IN THE DEPTHS 84 XV. LIGHT RAYS IN THE DARKNESS 91 XVI. REVOLUTION IS HERE! 100 XVII. PRISON DELIVERY--AND AN ENCOUNTER 108 XVIII. "THERE IS NO LAW--" 114 XIX. KNIFE DUEL AND ESCAPE 124 XX. THE NEW TYRANNY 129 XXI. ADVENTURES OF A PILGRIM 136 XXII. ADVENTURES OF A PILGRIM (CONTINUED) 142 XXIII. BEFORE THE DREAD TRIBUNAL 149 XXIV. VENGEANCE COME TO JUDGMENT 156 XXV. THE VOICE OF DANTON 160 XXVI. REPRIEVE OR AGONY 169 XXVII. THE FAREWELL 173 XXVIII. MANIAC WITH A DAGGER 178 XXIX. DANTON'S RIDERS 184 XXX. THE AFTERMATH 191 ORPHANS OF THE STORM CHAPTER I TWO GIRLS OF NORMANDY In all the countryside of Evreux, nay in all the beauteous old-time Normandy of the period of 1789, there were no lovelier _filles du peuple_ than Henriette and Louise Girard.