Revenge!

by Robert Barr

 

"I HAD THE SAFE BLOWN OPEN"

 

 

REVENGE!

BY

ROBERT BARR

AUTHOR OF "IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS," "THE FACE AND THE MASK,"
"A WOMAN INTERVENES," " FROM WHOSE BOURNE," ETC

 

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY LANCELOT SPEED, STANLEY WOOD, & G. G. MANTON

 

NEW YORK AND LONDON
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

 

copyright, 1894, 1895 and 1896
By ROBERT BARR

copyright, 1896
By FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

 

TO
JAMES SAMSON, M.D.

 

 

CONTENTS

1. PAGE

2. An Alpine Divorce

   1

3. Which Was the Murderer?

   9

4. A Dynamite Explosion

   17

5. An Electrical Slip

   31

6. The Vengeance of the Dead

   44

7. Over the Stelvio Pass

   61

8. The Hour and the Man

   77

9. "And the Rigour of the Game"

   90

10. The Bromley Gibberts Story

    111

11. Not According to the Code

    128

12. A Modern Samson

    140

13. A Deal on 'Change

    149

14. Transformation

    166

15. The Shadow of the Greenback

    182

16. The Understudy

    205

17. "Out of Thun"

    227

18. A Dramatic Point

    252

19. Two Florentine Balconies

    268

20. The Exposure of Lord Stansford

    278

21. Purification

    297

22. ⁠end matter

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. PAGE

2. "I HAD THE SAFE BLOWN OPEN"

   Frontispiece

3. THE CORD DANGLED ABOUT A FOOT ABOVE THE POLICEMAN'S HEAD

   25

4. DUPRÉ LAUNCHED HIS BOMB OUT INTO THE NIGHT

   28

5. "DO NOT PROCEED FURTHER WITH EXECUTION"

   38

6. HIS FIRST ACT WAS TO DISCHARGE EVERY SERVANT

   45

7. "WHEN YOU PRESS THE IVORY BUTTON, I FIRE"

   57

8. WIPING ITS BLADE ON THE CLOTHES OF THE PROSTRATE MAN

   69

9. "I WILL DRAW A PLAN"

   82

10. HE THREW ASIDE BUSHES, BRAMBLES AND LOGS

    87

11. "WHAT HAS HAPPENED?"

    162

12. SAM LOOKED SAVAGELY AROUND HIM

    191

13. "MY GOD, YOU WERE RIGHT AFTER ALL!"

    267