A crown of straw

by Allen Upward

CONTENTS

CHAPTER	PAGE
	Prologue	[ 1]
I.	The Garden of Eden	[ 15]
II.	The Spy	[ 30]
III.	The Princess Hermengarde’s Disclosure	[ 44]
IV.	A Double Traitor	[ 58]
V.	Johann’s Mission	[ 73]
VI.	King and Regicide	[ 86]
VII.	Hermengarde’s next Move	[ 98]
VIII.	An Anarchist King	[ 114]
IX.	Dorothea’s Choice	[ 134]
X.	The Cares of a Chancellor	[ 150]
XI.	Hermengarde drops a Hint	[ 165]
XII.	Harun al Rashid	[ 177]
XIII.	The State Prison	[ 191]
XIV.	Herr Moritz’s Plan	[ 204]
XV.	No. 79	[ 218]
XVI.	The First Warning	[ 230]
XVII.	The Coming of the Kaiser	[ 244]
XVIII.	The State Ball	[ 256]
XIX.	A Declaration of War	[ 270]
XX.	The Second Warning	[ 284]
XXI.	The Blow Falls	[ 296]
XXII.	A Royal Madman	[ 307]
XXIII.	Hermengarde’s Triumph	[ 317]
	Epilogue	[ 328]

A CROWN OF STRAW