Produced by David Edwards, Pat McCoy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE ROAD TO PARIS BY R. N. STEPHENS [Illustration] Works of ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS An Enemy to the King (Sixth Thousand) The Continental Dragoon (Fifth Thousand) The Road to Paris L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers (Incorporated) 196 Summer St., Boston, Mass. THE ROAD TO PARIS [Illustration: "A WILD THRUST BETRAYED THAT HIS EYE WAS NO LONGER TRUE." (_See page 536._)] THE ROAD TO PARIS A Story of Adventure BY ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS AUTHOR OF "AN ENEMY TO THE KING" "THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON," ETC. Illustrated by H. C. EDWARDS "Hark how the drums beat up again For all true soldiers, gentlemen; Then let us 'list and march away Over the hills and far away." --_Old Song._ BOSTON L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED) 1898 _Copyright, 1898_ By L. C. Page and Company (INCORPORATED) _Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_ Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A. "_D'Artagnan ... touched the earth, moistened with the evening dew, with the ends of his fingers, crossed himself as if at the holy-water vessel of a church, and retook alone--ever alone--the road to Paris._" --THE VISCOUNT OF BRAGELONNE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION ix I. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS 1 II. "OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY" 21 III. AT THE SIGN OF THE GEORGE 50 IV. OF A BROKEN SABBATH AND BROKEN HEADS 72 V. FROM BROADWAY TO BUNKER HILL 92 VI. THE WIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE 118 VII. THE MARCH THROUGH MAINE 150 VIII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF QUEBEC 175 IX. THE INCIDENTS OF A SNOWY NIGHT 201 X. "BY FLOOD AND FIELD" 227 XI. THREE WHIMSICAL GENTLEMEN AND A BEAUTIFUL LADY 257 XII. THE DEVIL TO PAY AT THE PELICAN INN 288 XIII. "UP AND DOWN IN LONDON TOWN" 323 XIV. "FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE" 352 XV. AN ELOPEMENT FROM A DILIGENCE 376 XVI. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY 401 XVII. "STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE" 426