Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive (University of Toronto) Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/redcockade00weymuoft (University of Toronto) THE RED COCKADE _WORKS BY STANLEY WEYMAN_. The House of the Wolf. A Gentleman of France. Under the Red Robe. My Lady Rotha. The New Rector. The Story of Francis Cludde. The Man in Black. From the Memoirs of a Minister of France. The Red Cockade. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS [Illustration: "'MESSIEURS,' HE CRIED." _See page_ 21.] THE RED COCKADE BY STANLEY WEYMAN AUTHOR OF "A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," ETC. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1895 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Marquis de St. Alais. II. The Ordeal. III. In the Assembly. IV. L'ami du Peuple. V. The Deputation. VI. A Meeting in the Road. VII. The Alarm. VIII. Gargouf. IX. The Tricolour. X. The Morning after the Storm. XI. The Two Camps. XII. The Duel. XIII. A la Lanterne. XIV. It Goes Ill. XV. At Milhau. XVI. Three in a Carriage. XVII. Froment of Nîmes. XVIII. A Poor Figure. XIX. At Nîmes XX. The Search. XXI. Rivals. XXII. Noblesse Oblige. XXIII. The Crisis. XXIV. The Millennium. XXV. Beyond the Shadow. THE RED COCKADE. CHAPTER I. THE MARQUIS DE ST. ALAIS. When we reached the terraced walk, which my father made a little before his death, and which, running under the windows at the rear of the Château, separates the house from the new lawn, St. Alais looked round with eyes of scarcely-veiled contempt. "What have you done with the garden?" he asked, his lip curling. "My father removed it to the other side of the house," I answered. "Out of sight?" "Yes," I said; "it is beyond the rose garden." "English fashion!" he answered with a shrug and a polite sneer. "And you prefer to see all this grass from your windows?" "Yes," I said, "I do." "Ah! And that plantation? It hides the village, I suppose, from the house?" "Yes."