The Conspirators A Romance Author:Robert W. Chambers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: A.L. Burt Subjects: History / General Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typ... more »os or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H TWO PASSPOKT8 In. which there i the dent to pay When the Brussels-Antwerp through express left Paris for the city of Luxembourg late in the afternoon, the first-class smoking compartment was occupied hy two young men. One had been handed a telegram just as the train moved off. He turned a trifle pale as he opened it. He did not interest me particularly, although I hoped he had received no bad news. I could not ask him, however, because I did not know him. The other young man sat smoking and drumming noiselessly on the car window with gloved fingers. That was the man who interested me. I glanced into the panel-mirror across the aisle, and nodded at my own reflection in friendly fashion, then turned again towards the window, to blink at trees, hedges, and telegraph-poles flying past, nntil the monotony tired me and I picked up the Figaro and read it through. Now although there was little in the paper to interest me, a single news item tucked away on the third page momentarily arrested my attention. The item was food for a cynic's digestpn. It read : " Prince Edric, of Prussia, is said to be deeply in love with a beautiful peasant girl of Luxembourg. As his intentions are honourable, the situation causes the Emperor great unhappiness." The paragraph started a train of thought which I followed, leaning on the window-sill, until I unconsciously began to weave a pretty romance arotmd the peasant girl of Luxembourg and the handsome Pruss...« less