THE MEDAL LIBRARY
FAMOUS COPYRIGHTED STORIES
FOR BOYS, BY FAMOUS AUTHORS
This is an ideal line for boys of all ages. It contains juvenile
masterpieces by the most popular writers of interesting fiction for
boys. Among these may be mentioned the works of Burt L. Standish,
detailing the adventures of Frank Merriwell, the hero, of whom every
American boy has read with admiration. Frank is a truly representative
American lad, full of character and a strong determination to do right
at any cost. Then, there are the works of Horatio Alger, Jr., whose keen
insight into the minds of the boys of our country has enabled him to
write a series of the most interesting tales ever published. This line
also contains some of the best works of Oliver Optic, another author
whose entire life was devoted to writing books that would tend to
interest and elevate our boys.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK
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To be Published During December
339—In School and Out By Oliver Optic
338—A Cousin’s Conspiracy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
337—Jack Harkaway After By Bracebridge Hemyng
Schooldays
336—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Great Scheme
To be Published During November
335—The Haunted Hunter By Edward S. Ellis
334—Tony, the Tramp By Horatio Alger, Jr.
333—Rich and Humble By Oliver Optic
332—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Stage Hit
331—The Hidden City By Walter MacDougall
330—Bob Burton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
329—Masterman Ready By Capt. Marryat
328—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Prosperity
327—Jack Harkaway’s By Bracebridge Hemyng
Friends
326—The Tin Box By Horatio Alger, Jr.
325—The Young By G. A. Henty
Franc-Tireurs
324—Frank Merriwell’s New By Burt L. Standish
Comedian
323—The Sheik’s White By Raymond Raife
Slave
322—Helping Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
321—Snarleyyow, The Dog By Capt. Marryat
Fiend
320—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Fortune
319—By Right of Conquest By G. A. Henty
318—Jed, the Poorhouse By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Boy
317—Jack Harkaway’s By Bracebridge Hemyng
Schooldays
316—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Problem
315—The Diamond Seeker of By Leon Lewis
Brazil
314—Andy Gordon By Horatio Alger, Jr.
313—The Phantom Ship By Capt. Marryat
312—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
College Chums
311—Whistler By Walter Aimwell
310—Making His Way By Horatio Alger, Jr.
309—Three Years at By A Wolvertonian
Wolverton
308—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Fame
307—The Boy Crusoes By Jeffreys Taylor
306—Chester Rand By Horatio Alger, Jr.
305—Japhet in Search of a By Capt. Marryat
Father
304—Frank Merriwell’s Own By Burt L. Standish
Company
303—The Prairie By J. Fenimore Cooper
302—The Young Salesman By Horatio Alger, Jr.
301—A Battle and a Boy By Blanche Willis Howard
300—Frank Merriwell on By Burt L. Standish
the Road
299—Mart Satterlee Among By William O. Stoddard
the Indians
298—Andy Grant’s Pluck By Horatio Alger, Jr.
297—Newton Forster By Capt. Marryat
296—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Protege
295—Cris Rock By Capt. Mayne Reid
294—Sam’s Chance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
293—My Plucky Boy Tom By Edward S. Ellis
292—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Hard Luck
291—By Pike and Dyke By G. A. Henty
290—Shifting For Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
289—The Pirate and the By Capt. Marryat
Three Cutters
288—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Opportunity
287—Kit Carson’s Last By Leon Lewis
Trail
286—Jack’s Ward By Horatio Alger, Jr.
285—Jack Darcy, the All By Edward S. Ellis
Around Athlete
284—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
First Job
283—Wild Adventures Round By Gordon Stables
the Pole
282—Herbert Carter’s By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Legacy
281—Rattlin, the Reefer By Capt. Marryat
280—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Struggle
279—Mark Dale’s Stage By Arthur M. Winfield
Venture
278—In Times of Peril By G. A. Henty
277—In a New World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
276—Frank Merriwell in By Burt L. Standish
Maine
275—The King of the By Henry Harrison Lewis
Island
274—Beach Boy Joe By Lieut. James K. Ortón
273—Jacob Faithful By Capt. Marryat
272—Facing the World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
271—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Chase
270—Wing and Wing By J. Fenimore Cooper
269—The Young Bank Clerk By Arthur M. Winfield
268—Do and Dare By Horatio Alger, Jr.
267—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Cruise
266—The Young Castaways By Leon Lewis
265—The Lion of St. Mark By G. A. Henty
264—Hector’s Inheritance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
263—Mr. Midshipman Easy By Captain Marryat
262—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Vacation
261—The Pilot By J. Fenimore Cooper
260—Driven From Home By Horatio Alger, Jr.
259—Sword and Pen By Henry Harrison Lewis
258—Frank Merriwell In By Burt L. Standish
Camp
257—Jerry By Walter Aimwell
256—The Young Ranchman By Lieut. Lounsberry
255—Captain Bayley’s Heir By G. A. Henty
254—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Loyalty
253—The Water Witch By J. Fenimore Cooper
252—Luke Walton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
251—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Banger
250—Neka, the Boy By Capt. Ralph Bonehill
Conjurer
249—The Young Bridge By Arthur M. Winfield
Tender
248—The West Point Rivals By Lieut. Frederick
Garrison, U. S. A.
247—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Secret
246—Rob Ranger’s Cowboy By Lieut. Lionel
Days Lounsberry
245—The Red Rover By J. Fenimore Cooper
244—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Return to Yale
243—Adrift in New York By Horatio Alger, Jr.
242—The Rival Canoe Boys By St. George Rathborne
241—The Tour of the Zero By Capt. R. Bonehill
Club
240—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Champions
239—The Two Admirals By J. Fenimore Cooper
238—A Cadet’s Honor By Lieut. Fred’k
Garrison, U. S. A.
237—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Skill
236—Rob Ranger’s Mine By Lieut. Lounsberry
235—The Young By G. A. Henty
Carthaginian
234—The Store Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
233—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Athletes
232—The Valley of Mystery By Henry Harrison Lewis
231—Paddling Under By St. George Rathborne
Palmettos
230—Off for West Point By Lieut. Fred’k
Garrison, U. S. A.
229—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Daring
228—The Cash Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
227—In Freedom’s Cause By G. A. Henty
226—Tom Havens With the By Lieut. James K. Orton
White Squadron
225—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Courage
224—Yankee Boys in Japan By Henry Harrison Lewis
223—In Fort and Prison By William Murray Graydon
222—A West Point Treasure By Lieut. Frederick
Garrison, U. S. A.
221—The Young Outlaw By Horatio Alger, Jr.
220—The Gulf Cruisers By St. George Rathborne
219—Tom Truxton’s Ocean By Lieut. Lounsberry
Trip
218—Tom Truxton’s School By Lieut. Lounsberry
Days
217—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Bicycle Tour
216—Campaigning With By Wm. Murray Graydon
Braddock
215—With Clive in India By G. A. Henty
214—On Guard By Lieut. Frederick
Garrison, U. S. A.
213—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Races
212—Julius, the Street By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Boy
211—Buck Badger’s Ranch By Russell Williams
210—Sturdy and Strong By G. A. Henty
209—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Sports Afield
208—The Treasure of the By Lieut. Lionel
Golden Crater Lounsberry
207—Shifting Winds By St. George Rathborne
206—Jungles and Traitors By Wm. Murray Graydon
205—Frank Merriwell at By Burt L. Standish
Yale
204—Under Drake’s Flag By G. A. Henty
203—Last Chance Mine By Lieut. James K. Orton
202—Risen From the Ranks By Horatio Alger, Jr.
201—Frank Merriwell in By Burt L. Standish
Europe
200—The Fight for a By Frank Merriwell
Pennant
199—The Golden Cañon By G. A. Henty
198—Only an Irish Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
197—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Hunting Tour
196—Zip, the Acrobat By Victor St. Clair
195—The Lion of the North By G. A. Henty
194—The White Mustang By Edward S. Ellis
193—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Bravery
192—Tom, the Bootblack By Horatio Alger, Jr.
191—The Rivals of the By Russell Williams
Diamond
190—The Cat of Bubastes By G. A. Henty
189—Frank Merriwell Down By Burt L. Standish
South
188—From Street to By Frank H. Stauffer
Mansion
187—Bound to Rise By Horatio Alger, Jr.
186—On the Trail of By Edward S. Ellis
Geronimo
185—For the Temple By G. A. Henty
184—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish.
Trip West
183—The Diamond Hunters By James Grant
182—The Camp in the Snow By William Murray Graydon
181—Brave and Bold By Horatio Alger, Jr.
180—One of the 28th By G. A. Henty
178—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Foes
177—The White Elephant By William Dalton
176—By England’s Aid By G. A. Henty
175—Strive and Succeed By Horatio Alger, Jr.
173—Life at Sea By Gordon Stables
172—The Young Midshipman By G. A. Henty
171—Erling the Bold By R. M. Ballantyne
170—Strong and Steady By Horatio Alger, Jr.
169—Peter, the Whaler By W. H. G. Kingston
168—Among Malay Pirates By G. A. Henty
167—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
Chums
166—Try and Trust By Horatio Alger, Jr.
165—The Secret Chart By Lieut. James K. Orton
164—The Cornet of Horse By G. A. Henty
163—Slow and Sure By Horatio Alger, Jr.
162—The Pioneers By J. F. Cooper
161—Reuben Green’s By James Otis
Adventures at Yale
160—Little by Little By Oliver Optic
159—Phil, the Fiddler By Horatio Alger, Jr.
158—With Lee in Virginia By G. A. Henty
157—Randy, the Pilot By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
156—The Pathfinder By J. F. Cooper
155—The Young Voyagers By Capt. Mayne Reid
154—Paul, the Peddler By Horatio Alger. Jr.
153—Bonnie Prince Charlie By G. A. Henty
152—The Last of the By J. Fenimore Cooper
Mohicans
151—The Flag of Distress By Capt. Mayne Reid
150—Frank Merriwell’s By Burt L. Standish
School Days
149—With Wolfe in Canada By G. A. Henty
148—The Deerslayer By J. F. Cooper
147—The Cliff Climbers By Capt. Mayne Reid
146—Uncle Nat By A. Oldfellow
145—Friends Though By G. A. Henty
Divided
144—The Boy Tar By Capt. Mayne Reid
143—Hendricks, the Hunter By W. H. G. Kingston
142—The Young Explorer By Gordon Stables
141—The Ocean Waifs By Capt. Mayne Reid
140—The Young Buglers By G. A. Henty
139—Shore and Ocean By W. H. G. Kingston
138—Striving for Fortune By Horatio Alger, Jr.
137—The Bush Boys By Capt. Mayne Reid
136—From Pole to Pole By Gordon Stables
135—Dick Cheveley By W. H. G. Kingston
134—Orange and Green By G. A. Henty
133—The Young Yagers By Capt. Mayne Reid
132—The Adventures of Rob By James Grant
Roy
131—The Boy Slaves By Capt. Mayne Reid
130—From Canal Boy to By Horatio Alger, Jr.
President
129—Ran Away to Sea By Capt. Mayne Reid
128—For Name and Fame By G. A. Henty
127—The Forest Exiles By Capt. Mayne Reid
126—From Powder Monkey to By W. H. G. Kingston
Admiral
125—The Plant Hunters By Capt. Mayne Reid
124—St. George for By G. A. Henty
England
123—The Giraffe Hunters By Capt. Mayne Reid
122—Tom Brace By Horatio Alger, Jr.
121—Peter Trawl By W. H. G. Kingston
120—In the Wilds of New By G. Manville Fenn
Mexico
119—A Final Reckoning By G. A. Henty
118—Ned Newton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
117—James Braithwaite, By W. H. G. Kingston
The Supercargo
116—Happy-Go-Lucky Jack By Frank H. Converse
115—Adventures of a Young By Matthew White, Jr.
Athlete
114—The Old Man of the By George H. Coomer
Mountains
113—The Bravest of the By G. A. Henty
Brave
112—20,000 Leagues Under By Jules Verne
the Sea
111—The Midshipman, By W. H. G. Kingston
Marmaduke Merry
110—Around the World in By Jules Verne
Eighty Days
109—A Dash to the Pole By Herbert D. Ward
108—Texar’s Revenge By Jules Verne
107—Van; or, In Search of By Frank H. Converse
an Unknown Race
106—The Boy Knight By George A Henty
105—The Young Actor By Gayle Winterton
104—Heir to a Million By Frank H. Converse
103—The Adventures of Rex By Mary A. Denison
Staunton
102—Clearing His Name By Matthew White, Jr.
101—The Lone Ranch By Capt. Mayne Reid
100—Maori and Settler By George A. Henty
99—The Cruise of the By James Otis
Restless; or, On Inland
Waterways
98—The Grand Chaco By George Manville Fenn
97—The Giant Islanders By Brooks McCormick
96—An Unprovoked Mutiny By James Otis
95—By Sheer Pluck By G. A. Henty
94—Oscar; or, The Boy Who By Walter Aimwell
Had His Own Way
93—A New York Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
92—Spectre Gold By Headon Hill
91—The Crusoes of Guiana By Louis Boussenard
90—Out on the Pampas By G. A. Henty
89—Clinton; or, Boy Life By Walter Aimwell
in the Country
88—My Mysterious Fortune By Matthew White, Jr.
87—The Five Hundred By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Dollar Check
86—Catmur’s Cave By Richard Dowling
85—Facing Death By G. A. Henty
84—The Butcher of By William Murray Graydon
Cawnpore
83—The Tiger Prince By William Dalton
82—The Young Editor By Matthew White, Jr.
81—Arthur Helmuth, of the By Edward S. Ellis
H. & N. C. Railway
80—Afloat in the Forest By Capt. Mayne Reid
79—The Rival Battalions By Brooks McCormick
78—Both Sides of the By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Continent
77—Perils of the Jungle By Edward S. Ellis
76—The War Tiger; or, The By William Dalton
Conquest of China
75—Boys in the Forecastle By George H. Coomer
74—The Dingo Boys By George Manville Fenn
73—The Wolf Boy of China By William Dalton
72—The Way to Success; By Alfred Oldfellow
or, Tom Randall
71—Mark Seaworth’s Voyage By William H. G. Kingston
on the Indian Ocean
70—The New and Amusing By F. C. Burnand
History of Sandford and
Merton
69—Pirate Island By Harry Collingwood
68—Smuggler’s Cave By Annie Ashmore
67—Tom Brown’s School By Thomas Hughes
Days
66—A Young Vagabond By Z. R. Bennett
65—That Treasure By Frank H. Converse
64—The Tour of a Private By Matthew White, Jr.
Car
63—In the Sunk Lands By Walter F. Bruns
62—How He Won By Brooks McCormick
61—The Erie Train Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
60—The Mountain Cave By George H. Coomer
59—The Rajah’s Fortress By William Murray Graydon
58—Gilbert, The Trapper By Capt. C. B. Ashley
57—The Gold of Flat Top By Frank H. Converse
Mountain
56—Nature’s Young By Brooks McCormick
Noblemen
55—A Voyage to the Gold By Frank H. Converse
Coast
54—Joe Nichols; or, By Alfred Oldfellow
Difficulties Overcome
53—The Adventures of a By Horatio Alger, Jr.
New York Telegraph Boy
52—From Farm Boy to By Horatio Alger, Jr.
Senator
51—Tom Tracy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
50—Dean Dunham By Horatio Alger, Jr.
49—The Mystery of a By Frank H. Converse
Diamond
48—Luke Bennett’s By Capt. C. B. Ashley,
Hide-Out U.S. Scout
47—Eric Dane By Matthew White, Jr.
46—Poor and Proud By Oliver Optic
45—Jack Wheeler; A By Capt. David Southwick
Western Story
44—The Golden Magnet By George Manville Fenn
43—In Southern Seas By Frank H. Converse
42—The Young Acrobat By Horatio Alger, Jr.
41—Check 2134 By Edward S. Ellis
40—Canoe and Campfire By St. George Rathborne
39—With Boer and By William Murray Graydon
Britisher in the
Transvaal
38—Gay Dashleigh’s By Arthur Sewall
Academy Days
37—Commodore Junk By George Manville Fenn
36—In Barracks and Wigwam By William Murray Graydon
35—In the Reign of Terror By G. A. Henty
34—The Adventures of Mr. By Cuthbert Bede, B. A.
Verdant Green
33—Jud and Joe, Printers By Gilbert Patten
and Publishers
32—The Curse of Carnes’ By G. A. Henty
Hold
31—The Cruise of the Snow By Gordon Stables
Bird
30—Peter Simple By Captain Marryat
29—True to the Old Flag By G. A. Henty
28—The Boy Boomers By Gilbert Patten
27—Centre-Board Jim By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
26—The Cryptogram By William Murray Graydon
25—Through the Fray By G. A. Henty
24—The Boy From the West By Gilbert Patten
23—The Dragon and the By G. A. Henty
Raven
22—From Lake to By William Murray Graydon
Wilderness
21—Won at West Point By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
20—Wheeling for Fortune By James Otis
19—Jack Archer By G. A. Henty
18—The Silver Ship By Leon Lewis
17—Ensign Merrill By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
16—The White King of By William Murray Graydon
Africa
15—Midshipman Merrill By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
14—The Young Colonists By G. A. Henty
13—Up the Ladder By Lieut. Murray
12—Don Kirk’s Mine By Gilbert Patten
11—From Tent to White By Edward S. Ellis
House
10—Don Kirk, the Boy By Gilbert Patten
Cattle King
9—Try Again By Oliver Optic
8—Kit Carey’s Protégé By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
7—Chased Through Norway By James Otis
6—Captain Carey of the By Lieut. Lionel
Gallant Seventh Lounsberry
5—Now or Never By Oliver Optic
4—Lieutenant Carey’s Luck By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
3—All Aboard By Oliver Optic
2—Cadet Kit Carey By Lieut. Lionel
Lounsberry
1—The Boat Club By Oliver Optic
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
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The greatest and most famous writer of rattling good tales of adventure
for boys, was Horatio Alger, Jr. He is the Dickens of juvenile
literature. His best works are published in the Medal Library at ten
cents per copy. For sale by all newsdealers.
ALGER, HORATIO, JR.
42. Young Acrobat, The.
50. Dean Dunham.
52. From Farm Boy to Senator.
61. Erie Train Boy, The.
87. Five Hundred Dollar Check, The.
118. Ned Newton; or, The Adventures of a New York Bootblack.
122. Tom Brace.
130. From Canal Boy to President.
138. Striving for Fortune.
154. Paul, the Peddler.
159. Phil, the Fiddler.
163. Slow and Sure.
166. Try and Trust.
170. Strong and Steady.
175. Strive and Succeed.
181. Brave and Bold.
187. Bound to Rise.
192. Tom, the Bootblack.
198. Only an Irish Boy.
202. Risen From the Ranks.
212. Julius, the Street Boy.
221. Young Outlaw, The.
228. Cash Boy, The.
234. Store Boy, The.
243. Adrift in New York.
252. Luke Walton.
260. Driven From Home.
264. Hector’s Inheritance.
268. Do and Dare.
272. Facing the World.
277. In a New World.
282. Herbert Carter’s Legacy.
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Frank Merriwell on the Boulevards
OR
ASTONISHING THE EUROPEANS
By
BURT L. STANDISH
Author of
“The Merriwell Stories“
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_STREET & SMITH PUBLISHERS_
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Copyright, 1899
By STREET & SMITH
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CHAPTER I.
“MADEMOISELLE MYSTERIE.”
“Well, fellows, what do you think of Paris?” asked Frank Merriwell,
settling himself into a comfortable position on his chair.
With his three Yale friends, Frank had been in the French capital a day.
The party had crossed from England the previous day, and, after a good
night’s sleep, the first for three of the party on French shore, they
had sallied forth to spend the day seeing the sights of Paris.
“Paris!” cried Harry Rattleton, striking an attitude in the middle of
the room; “Paris is a—a relief!”
“I should say so!” nodded Jack Diamond, standing by a window, from which
he could look out upon the brilliantly lighted Place Vendome, in the
center of which rose the majestic Vendome Column, the most imposing
monument of all Europe. “After London, Paris is heaven!”
“Haw!” grunted Bruce Browning, who was in his favorite attitude of rest,
stretched at full length on a comfortable couch. “Paris would be all
right, if it wasn’t full of Frenchmen.”
“As for that,” smiled Frank, “it is full of Englishmen, Americans, and
people from all over the world, and every well-educated Frenchman can
talk English, you know.”
“Paris is beautiful!” cried Diamond. “Look at that column out there!
Just think, the bronze from which it was built was furnished by Austrian
and Russian cannon captured in battle by the French! From base to
summit, it is covered with bronze figures, in relief, forming a
miniature army, with cannon, horses, and accouterments, ascending by a
spiral road to the massive figure of Napoleon at the top. Oh, it is a
sight for the eyes of the world!”
“The statue, yes,” nodded Frank. “Think of robing Napoleon in the garb
of a Roman emperor! That is the one thing in bad taste about the column.
But that was not always so.”
“How’s that?” exclaimed Rattleton. “Have they changed his clothes from
the original suit given him?”
“That is not the original statue at the top of the column.”
“No? Why, how——”
“After Waterloo, when the Bourbons once more governed France, they took
Napoleon’s statue down. The original one represented him in the cocked
hat and old gray coat, immortalized on many a field of victory.”
“And they never put it back?”
“In its place, they erected a monstrous _fleur-de-lis_. However, this
combination of the emblem of the Bourbon family and a memorial of
Napoleon was perfectly absurd, and the people protested against it.
Louis Philippe yielded to the desire of the masses, and the present
figure of Napoleon was erected. This monument was shamefully treated by
the communists.”
“Eh! Why, they didn’t bother themselves with that, did they?”
“They pulled it down. It was necessary to lay a thick bed of tan along
the street, to mitigate the shock when it fell. The national troops
arrived in time to prevent its complete ruin, and it was reconstructed
as you see it.”
“It’s strange that people like the communists, nihilists, anarchists,
and that sort, always, when possible, destroy everything they can in the
way of sculpture, architecture, and art. They seem possessed by a
senseless rage against the beautiful. Such human beings plainly show the
low and brutal in their natures. They rob themselves of sympathy by
their acts, and make themselves detested, as they should be. God did not
put us into the world to hate and destroy,” declared Diamond.
“Oh, say, give us a rest!” grunted Browning. “I’m tired.”
“As usual.”
“Now, don’t fling that!” growled the big Yale man.
“Merriwell has kept us on the jump all day, seeing things. He trotted us
from the Trocadero to Prison Mazas, and that is pretty nearly from one
end of the city to the other. He has shown us all the sights——”
“I beg your pardon!” exclaimed Merry, with a laugh. “I haven’t begun to
show you anything of the sights of Paris. All I tried to do was give you
a general idea of the city.”
“Dow the hickens—I mean, how the dickens—you ever learned so much about
Paris is what puzzles me,” burst forth Rattleton.
“It’s a wonder to all of us,” admitted Diamond. “Why, you seem perfectly
familiar with the city, Frank.”
“To a certain extent, I am familiar with it. You know, I spent three
weeks here in company with our old friend, Ephraim Gallup, and my
guardian, poor Professor Scotch, and I was on the hustle all the time,
so I got the lay of the land pretty well.”
“But, great Scott! why didn’t you ever say anything about it?”
“Never had occasion.”
“Didn’t you meet with any adventures in Paris worth relating?”
“Oh, I met with adventures enough, I assure you.”
“Pleasant adventures?” asked Harry, with a grin and a wink.
“Well, I hardly think they’d be designated as pleasant.”
“Lovely girls, and all that sort of thing?”
“There was one girl concerned.”
“Only one?”
“She was quite enough, under the circumstances. She was an anarchist.”
“Huah!” grunted Bruce.
“Whew!” whistled Harry.
“Jove!” exclaimed Jack.
“I fell in with a New York newspaper reporter, who had been sent over to
investigate and write up the recent bomb outrages in this city. Being
seen with him, I was spotted by the anarchists, who regarded him as a
spy. I was warned to leave France, but didn’t fancy being driven out
that way.”
“Well, that was interesting!” ejaculated Diamond.
“Rather!” drawled Bruce.
“It was hot stuff!” said Rattleton.
“It was the night after Grand Prix, the great French horse-race, that I
received my first warning. It came from a masked woman. Wynne, the
reporter, followed her, but she slipped him. On the night after Grand
Prix, all Paris turns out to enjoy itself, and be gay. It was at the
Jardin de Paris that I saw her again, in the midst of the mob that was
dancing and singing there in the open air. I caught her by the wrist,
and she tried to stab me.”
“Whew!” again whistled Rattleton.
“Huah!” once more grunted Browning.
“Jove!” was Diamond’s repeated ejaculation.
“Her friends were on hand to aid her, and she managed to break away, and
slip me, as she had Wynne. Afterward, at a place called the Red Flag, I
ran across Wynne. Anarchists resorted there, and they tried to stop us
both. Wynne got away, but I was roped in. Somebody rapped the senses out
of me, and I came to myself in a dungeon-like place, a captive.”
They knew he was telling the truth, for Frank Merriwell never lied, but
it dazed them to think he had never mentioned the matter before.
“What happened next?” breathlessly asked Harry.
“The woman, who was known as ‘Mademoiselle Mysterie,’ came there to kill
me. I was bound and gagged, and she had a dagger to finish me off. I
couldn’t squeal, and so I smiled at her. Then what do you think
happened?”
“Can’t guess.”
“You tell.”
“Go on!”
“She fell in love with me,” said Frank quietly.
“What?”
“The deuce!”
“Come off!”
“She did,” nodded Merry, smiling. “She decided not to kill me. She
resolved to save me, even though I had been condemned to die by the
bomb-throwers, who were convinced that I was dangerous for them. Then,
when the real executioner came into the cellar to do the job, she struck
him senseless with a stone, and set me free.”
Bruce Browning sat up, and stared at Frank.
“I’ll admit that you are the queerest chap alive!” he growled. “You had
such an adventure here in Paris, and yet you never told any of us a word
about it! Merriwell, I don’t understand you, and I thought I knew you
pretty well.”
Now Frank laughed outright.
“I had no occasion to say anything about it, you know.”
“Most fellows would have made an occasion. Supposing the story of that
adventure had been known at college. You’d been a king-pin from the very
first.”
“Oh, I don’t know about that. You know, a fellow’s record before he
enters Yale doesn’t cut much ice there. It’s the record he makes
afterward that counts. In almost any other college it is different. A
man’s standing amounts to a great deal elsewhere. At Yale, he makes a
standing for himself. If he attempts to bolster himself up by tales of
what he has done, he is regarded with suspicion and contempt. You know
this is true. It is to his direct disadvantage to boast.”
“But it was not necessary for you to boast. You might have told your
friends. You never told any of us.”
“Never!” exclaimed Diamond.
“Not a word!” came reproachfully from Rattleton.
“Not even when we were coming here,” growled Browning resentfully.
“Well, I’ve told you now, you know.”
“Not everything,” said Jack eagerly. “Go on. How did you escape?”
“Fought my way out through dynamiters, aided by the woman. The men were
in a room where a Russian manufacturer of infernal machines was
explaining how his devilish inventions worked. He had all his bombs
spread out on a table. I got through that room, and out of the building,
and I was lucky. What happened behind me, I can only surmise. It is
certain one of those bombs was exploded, and it exploded others. The
building was wrecked, the anarchists were killed, and among them was
found the body of the woman who had saved me, their queen. She is buried
at Mont Parnasse, and I paid for the stone that marks her grave.”
Browning struggled to his feet, and stood there, colossal, imposing,
outraged, his hands on his hips.
“I have considered you my friend,” he said; “but I feel like punching
you now! Why, you even trotted us round all day, and never once
mentioned this!”
“I didn’t want to bore you.”
“Bore us—bore us with a yarn like that! Why, it’s exciting enough to
furnish a plot for a novel! And you actually passed through such an
adventure here in Paris?”
“Didn’t I say so? Do you think I’m drawing the long bow?”
“No, but——”
“But what?”
“It is so remarkable. Why, you came to Yale in the quietest way
possible. Any one might have taken you for a country lad just getting
out into the world, for all of anything you had to tell of yourself.”
“What if I had told the story I’ve just related to you? What if I had
related a number of yarns about my adventures in various parts of the
world? What if I had begun at college by prating of the things I had
done?”
“You’d been set down as a howling liar!” exploded Rattleton.
“Exactly,” nodded Merry. “If I had an inclination to speak of such
things, I put it aside, and kept corked up. You need not set it down as
modesty, unless you like; you may call it horse-sense.”
They talked over Frank’s adventure, just related, for some time, asking
him many questions about it, for it was a most fascinating story.
“Those must have been tot old himes—I mean hot old times,” said
Rattleton.
“I should say so!” agreed Diamond. “You struck a circus in Paris, and
that’s straight! I hardly think anything like that will happen while you
are here this time.”
“Not likely,” admitted Merry. “I don’t believe I care about having
anything like that happen again. It’s well enough to talk about, but I
was rather too near being snuffed out to enjoy it at the time.”
There came a timid knock on the door.
“Come!” called Frank.
The door opened falteringly, and Mr. Maybe, Frank’s tutor, looked in
hesitatingly.
“Mr. Merriwell,” he said, “I think you had better retire. You must be
tired, and, you know, your studies——”
“Hang it, Mr. Maybe!” exclaimed Merry; “I’m not going to begin cramming
again the moment we reach Paris. You must give me two or three days to
look round with my friends, and enjoy the sights.”
“You have wasted to-day, sir, and——”
“Wasted it? No. We’ve taken in the streets, the boulevards, the Seine,
the Luxembourg Gardens, the Champs-Élysées, the Bourse, and so forth.
To-morrow, we will visit other places of interest—Versailles, the
Trocadero, the Grand Opera-House, perhaps, the Eiffel Tower. There are
thousands of beautiful things to be seen in Paris, Mr. Maybe, and I
advise you to get out and circulate. It will do you good.”
“You must have been reading the guide-books, to know so much about
Paris,” said Maybe. “I’m going to bed, and I advise you to do the same.
Good night.”
He retired, closing the door.
“He doesn’t even dream you ever saw Paris before,” said Rattleton.
“Well,” grunted Browning, from the couch, on which he was stretched once
more, “I think I’ll take his advice, and go to bed. I know I shall sleep
like a top to-night. I don’t believe an earthquake would disturb me.”
“But your snoring is likely to disturb everybody else on this floor,”
declared Rattleton. “I’m glad Merriwell has taken pity on me, and
arranged it so I don’t have to sleep with you. You’ll have an entire bed
and a whole room to yourself to-night.”
“What a relief that will be!” murmured the big fellow. “How sweetly I
will slumber!”
He did not notice that his three companions looked at each other
knowingly, while Frank changed a laugh into a choking cough. He did not
suspect what was in store for him that night, so he arose, bade good
night to the others, and went to his room.
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