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El Dorado
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Baroness Orczy
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El Dorado

Foreword ............................................................................................................................. 4
1. In The Theatre National .............................................................................................. 6
2. Widely Divergent Aims ............................................................................................ 11
3. The Demon Chance................................................................................................... 19
4. Mademoiselle Lange................................................................................................. 22

5. The Temple Prison.................................................................................................... 28
6. The Committee's Agent ............................................................................................ 34
7. The Most Precious Life In Europe............................................................................ 38
8. Arcades Ambo .......................................................................................................... 44
9. What Love Can Do ................................................................................................... 48
10. Shadows ................................................................................................................ 56
11. The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel.................................................................. 61
12. What Love Is......................................................................................................... 70
13. Then Everything Was Dark .................................................................................. 76
14. The Chief .............................................................................................................. 80

15. The Gate Of La Villette ........................................................................................ 84
16. The Weary Search................................................................................................. 87
17. Chauvelin .............................................................................................................. 96
18. The Removal....................................................................................................... 100
19. It Is About The Dauphin ..................................................................................... 104
20. The Certificate Of Safety .................................................................................... 108
21. Back To Paris...................................................................................................... 111
22. Of That There Could Be No Question ................................................................ 119
23. The Overwhelming Odds.................................................................................... 126
24. The News ............................................................................................................ 128

25. Paris Once More ................................................................................................. 135
26. The Bitterest Foe................................................................................................. 139
27. In The Conciergerie ............................................................................................ 146
28. The Caged Lion................................................................................................... 150
29. For The Sake Of That Helpless Innocent............................................................ 154
30. Afterwards........................................................................................................... 162
31. An Interlude ........................................................................................................ 166
32. Sisters.................................................................................................................. 168
33. Little Mother ....................................................................................................... 174
34. The Letter............................................................................................................ 177

35. The Last Phase .................................................................................................... 180
36. Submission.......................................................................................................... 188
37. Chauvelin's Advice ............................................................................................. 193
38. Capitulation......................................................................................................... 196
39. Kill Him!............................................................................................................. 202
40. God Help Us All ................................................................................................. 207
41. When Hope Was Dead........................................................................................ 209
42. The Guard-House Of The Rue Ste. Anne ........................................................... 214
43. The Dreary Journey............................................................................................. 219
44. The Halt At Crecy............................................................................................... 222
45. The Forest Of Boulogne...................................................................................... 227
46. Others In The Park .............................................................................................. 231
47. The Chapel Of The Holy Sepulchre.................................................................... 236
48. The Waning Moon .............................................................................................. 241
49. The Land Of Eldorado ........................................................................................ 245