XIII.-An Asiatic Lion in Hiding.
XIV.-The Council at Granville
XV.-The French Fisher Boat "Hirondelle"
BOOK I. OUT OF THE DEAD PAST.
CHAPTER I.
A CHANCE MEETING AT GENEVA.
"By Jove! I may as well make an end of the thing right here to-night!"
was the dejected conclusion of a long council of war over which
Major Alan Hawke had presided, with the one straggling comfort of
being its only member.
All this long September afternoon he had dawdled away in feeding
certain rapacious swans navigating gracefully around Rousseau's