The Four FeathersBritish guardsman Harry Feversham stuns his friends when, just before he is scheduled to ship off to the Sudan, he quits his regiment. In shocked retaliation for this dastardly act of cowardice, Harry is presented with four feathers: one from each of his three closest regimental friends and the fourth-and the most devastating-from his fiancée. Determined to prove his bravery-and to clear his name-Harry embarks for the Sudan. In search of service . . . and of honor. |
Contents
I A Crimean Night | 1 |
II Captain Trench and a Telegram | 12 |
III The Last Ride Together | 20 |
IV The Ball At Lennon House | 27 |
V The Pariah | 40 |
VI Harry Fevershams Plan | 45 |
VII The Last Reconnaissance | 56 |
VIII Lieutenant Sutch is Tempted to Lie | 64 |
XIX Mrs Adair Intervenes | 168 |
XX East and West | 178 |
XXI Ethne Makes Another Slip | 185 |
XXII Durrance Lets His Cigar Go Out | 194 |
XXIII Mrs Adair Makes Her Apology | 203 |
XXIV On the Nile | 211 |
XXV Lieutenant Sutch Comes Off the HalfPay List | 217 |
XXVI General Fevershams Portraits Are Appeased | 231 |
IX At Glenalla | 71 |
X The Well of Obak | 81 |
XI Durrance Hears News of Feversham | 87 |
XII Durrance Sharpens His Wits | 94 |
XIII Durrance Begins to See | 109 |
XIV Captain Willoughby Reappears | 118 |
XV The Story of the First Feather | 128 |
XVI Captain Willoughby Retires | 140 |
XVII The Melusine Overture | 150 |
XVIII The Answer to the Overture | 157 |
XXVII The House of Stone | 238 |
XXVIII Plans of Escape | 252 |
XXIX Colonel Trench Assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry | 263 |
XXX The Last of the Southern Cross | 275 |
XXXI Feversham Returns to Ramelton | 284 |
XXXII In the Church at Glenalla | 291 |
XXXIII Ethne Again Plays the Melusine Overture | 300 |
XXXIV The End | 307 |
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