Captain de Sabron and Julia Redmond
HIS LOVE STORY
By
MARIE VAN VORST
Author of
First Love, The Girl From His Town
The Broken Bell, etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1913
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
To
Monsieur le Capitaine Dadvisard
de la Cavalerie Française
Paris, 1912
CONTENTS
Chapter
I A Serious Event
II Julia Redmond
III A Second Invitation
IV The Dog Pays
V The Golden Autumn
VI Ordered Away
VII A Soldier's Dog
VIII Homesick
IX The Fortunes of War
X Together Again
XI A Sacred Trust
XII The News From Africa
XIII One Dog's Day
XIV An American Girl
XV Julia's Romance
XVI The Duke in Doubt
XVII Out of the Desert
XVIII Two Lovely Women
XIX The Man in Rags
XX Julia Decides
XXI Master and Friend
XXII Into the Desert
XXIII Two Love Stories
XXIV The Meeting
XXV As Handsome Does
XXVI Congratulations
XXVII Valor in Retrospect
XXVIII Happiness
HIS LOVE STORY
CHAPTER I
A SERIOUS EVENT
Le Comte de Sabron, in theundress uniform of captain in the—— Cavalry, sat smoking and thinking....What is the use of beingthirty years old with the brevet of captainand much distinction of family if you area poor man—in short, what is the goodof anything if you are alone in the worldand no one cares what becomes of you?
He rang his bell, and when his ordonnanceappeared, said sharply:
"Que diable is the noise in the stable,Brunet? Don't you know that when Ismoke at this hour all Tarascon must bekept utterly silent?"
Tarascon is never silent. No Frenchmeridional town is, especially in the warmsunlight of a glor