Helena's Path
By
ANTHONY HOPE
AUTHOR OF DOUBLE HARNESS
TRISTRAM OF BLENT
ETC.
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1912
Copyright, 1907, by Anthony Hope Hawkins
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Ambrose, Lord Lynborough | 3 |
| II | Largely Topographical | 15 |
| III | Of Law and Natural Rights | 33 |
| IV | The Message of a Padlock | 52 |
| V | The Beginning of War | 70 |
| VI | Exercise Before Breakfast | 90 |
| VII | Another Wedge! | 110 |
| VIII | The Marchesa Moves | 127 |
| IX | Lynborough Drops a Catch | 148 |
| X | In the Last Resort | 171 |
| XI | An Armistice | 186 |
| XII | An Embassage | 206 |
| XIII | The Feast of St. John Baptist | 223 |
HELENA'S PATH
Chapter One
AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH
Common opinion said that Lord Lynboroughought never to have had a peerage andforty thousand a year; he ought to have hada pound a week and a back bedroom inBloomsbury. Then he would have become aneminent man; as it was, he turned out onlya singularly erratic individual.
So much for common opinion. Let nomore be heard of its dull utilitarian judgements!There are plenty of eminent men—atthe moment, it i
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