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Title: The Maids of Paradise
Author: Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Release Date: March 9, 2009 [eBook #28295]
Language: English
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THE MAIDS OF PARADISE
A Novel
by
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Author of "Cardigan" "The Conspirators" "Maid-at-Arms" etc.
Illustrated
[Illustration: "'LOOK THERE!' SHE CRIED, IN TERROR" [See p. 81]]
[Illustration]
New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1903
Copyright, 1902, by Robert W. Chambers. All rights reserved.
Published September, 1903.
PREFACE
As far as the writer knows, no treasure-trains were actually sent to the port of Lorient from the arsenal at Brest. The treasures remained at Brest.
Concerning