Produced by Les Bowler THE LAST HOPE By Henry Seton Merriman “What is it thou knowest, sweet voice?” I cried. “A hidden hope,” the voice replied. CONTENTS I. LE ROI EST MORT II. VIVE LE ROI III. THE RETURN OF “THE LAST HOPE” IV. THE MARQUIS'S CREED V. ON THE DYKE VI. THE STORY OF THE CASTAWAYS VII. ON THE SCENT VIII. THE LITTLE BOY WHO WAS A KING IX. A MISTAKE X. IN THE ITALIAN HOUSE XI. A BEGINNING XII. THE SECRET OF GEMOSAC XIII. WITHIN THE GATES XIV. THE LIFTED VEIL XV. THE TURN OF THE TIDE XVI. THE GAMBLERS XVII. ON THE PONT ROYAL XVIII. THE CITY THAT SOON FORGETS XIX. IN THE BREACH XX. “NINETEEN” XXI. NO. 8 RUELLE ST. JACOB XXII. DROPPING THE PILOT XXIII. A SIMPLE BANKER XXIV. THE LANE OF MANY TURNINGS XXV. SANS RANCUNE XXVI. RETURNED EMPTY XXVII. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES XXVIII. BAREBONE'S PRICE XXIX. IN THE DARK XXX. IN THE FURROW AGAIN XXXI. THE THURSDAY OF MADAME DE CHANTONNAY XXXII. PRIMROSES XXXIII. DORMER COLVILLE IS BLIND XXXIV. A SORDID MATTER XXXV. A SQUARE MAN XXXVI. MRS. ST. PIERRE LAWRENCE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND XXXVII. AN UNDERSTANDING XXXVIII. A COUP-D'ETAT XXXIX. “JOHN DARBY” XL. FARLINGFORD ONCE MORE CHAPTER I. LE ROI EST MORT “There; that's it. That's where they buried Frenchman,” said Andrew--known as River Andrew. For there was another Andrew who earned his living on the sea. River Andrew had conducted the two gentlemen from “The Black Sailor” to the churchyard by their own request. A message had been sent to him in the morning that this service would be required of him, to which he had returned the answer that they would have to wait until the evening. It was his day to go round Marshford way with dried fish, he said; but in the evening they could see the church if they still set their minds on it. River Andrew combined the light duties of grave-digger and clerk to the parish of Farlingford in Suffolk with a small but steady business in fish of his own drying, nets of his own netting, and pork slain and dressed by his own weather-beaten hands.