THE WOLF-LEADER

By Alexandre Dumas

NEWLY TRANSLATED BY
A L F R E D A L L I N S O N

NEVER BEFORE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

WITH THREE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK ADAMS

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An immense Wolf entered the Room, walking on its hind Legs	Frontispiece
A young Girl suddenly emerged from the Underwood	23
The Baron's Horse Shied, throwing the Rider over its Head	80

CHAPTER	PAGE
Introduction.	Who Mocquet was, and how this Tale became known to the Narrator	1
I.	The Grand Master of His Highness' Wolf Hounds	12
II.	The Seigneur Jean and the Sabot Maker	16
III.	Agnelette	22
IV.	The Black Wolf	27
V.	The Pact with Satan	31
VI.	The Bedevilled Hair	35
VII.	The Boy at the Mill	40
VIII.	Thibault's Wishes	44
IX.	The Wolf-Leader	47
X.	Maître Magloire	51
XI.	David and Goliath	55
XII.	Wolves in the Sheep-fold	60
XIII.	Where it is demonstrated that a Woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her Tongue	67
XIV.	A Village Wedding	72
XV.	The Lord of Vauparfond	76
XVI.	My Lady's Lady	80
XVII.	The Baron de Mont-Gobert	84
XVIII.	Death and Resurrection	88
XIX.	The Dead and the Living	90
XX.	True to Tryst	94
XXI.	The Genius of Evil	99
XXII.	Thibault's Last Wish	105
XXIII.	The Anniversary	108
XXIV.	Hunting down the Were-Wolf	111