\"Laurent de Courtomer is the son of royalist émigrés, brought up in England. While still there, he saves the life of Aymar de Richeterie, better known as the Breton guerrilla leader, L’Oiseleur. In the process he develops what can only be described as an unhealthy pash for the hapless leader of chouans. Flash forward a year and everything has changed. Laurent is back in France, Napoleon has been imprisoned, and then escaped. While acting as a courier in Brittany, Laurent is captured by Imperialist forces. There is another prisoner, a traitor who, betraying his own men, was then shot by them (but not killed, obviously) before being captured. This traitor is of course, none other than our friend Richeterie. Naturally Laurent, on no evidence whatsoever, refuses to believe that Richeterie could possibly have done what is claimed, and nurses him back to health. Strangely though Richetierie refuses to deny that he betrayed his men, until eventually Laurent gets it out of him that the betrayal was all a ruse gone wrong, and worse, that he is staying mum to nobly keep his girlfriend’s name out of it. The girlfriend is a bit of a wishy washy sort of character who has hysterics when she eventually finds out, as of course she does, that Richeterie had carried out this ruse, betraying his men in the process in order to save her life\" (from a WordPress review).First published 1922; this is the 1936 \'Popular Edition\' reprint.Good condition for age. No highlighting or other notes. Cover is intact with strong hinges; some tanning on endpapers.