CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. "THE BLACK-ROBED PHANTOM, DEATH" [11]

II. "THE NEW ART" [32]

III. "THE DANCING GIRL" [39]

IV. "ADREA'S DIARY" [47]

V. "THE FAR-OFF MUTTERING OF THE STORM TO COME" [50]

VI. "AN ASHEN GREY DELIGHT" [61]

VII. "WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT YOUR MISSION" [73]

VIII. "I AM WEARY OF A HOPELESS LOVE" [80]

IX. "AH! HOW FAIR MY WEAKNESS FINDS THEE" [91]

X. "I AM BUT A SLAVE, AND YET I BID THEE COME" [104]

XI. "ADREA'S DIARY" [114]

XII. "WE ARE LIKE SHOOTING STARS, WHOSE MEETING IS THEIR RUIN" [122]

XIII. "THE PATH THAT LEADS TO MADMEN'S KINGDOMS" [129]

XIV. "THE POISON OF HONEY FLOWERS" [136]

XV. "AND MOST OF ALL WOULD I FLY FROM THE CRUEL MADNESS OF LOVE" [144]

XVI. "'TWIXT YOU AND ME A NOISOME SHADOW CAST" [154]

XVII. "IF LOVE YOU CHOOSE, THEN LOVE SHALL BE YOUR RUIN" [159]

XVIII. "SOFTLY GLIMMERING THROUGH THE LAURELS AT THE QUIET EVENFALL" [166]

XIX. "BLOOD CALLS ALOUD FOR BLOOD AND NOT FOR HANDS ENTWINED" [174]

XX. "THE NEW, STRONG WINE OF LOVE" [180]

XXI. "ADREA'S DIARY" [185]

XXII. "OH! HEART OF STONE, YET FLESH TO ALL SAVE ME" [195]

XXIII. "MY LIPS ARE CHARGED WITH TRUTH, AND JUSTICE BIDS ME SPEAK" [206]

XXIV. "THE SHATTERED VASE OF LOVE'S MOST HOLY VOWS" [218]

XXV. "A BECKONING VOICE FROM OUT A SHADOWY LAND" [224]

XXVI. "LATE THOU COMEST, CRUEL THOU HAST BEEN" [232]

XXVII. "GRIM FIGURES TRACED BY SORROW'S FIERY HAND" [241]

XXVIII. "ADREA'S DIARY" [249]

XXIX. "ADREA'S DIARY" [263]

XXX. "ADREA'S DIARY" [275]

XXXI. "ADREA'S DIARY" [280]

XXXII. "THE LORD OF CRUTA" [291]

XXXIII. "THE DAWN OF A SHORT, SWEET LIFE" [298]

XXXIV. "A VOICE AND FIGURE FROM THE DISTANT PAST" [308]

XXXV. "FROM OUT LIFE'S THUNDERS TO A STRANGE, SWEET WORLD" [322]

XXXVI. "LOVE THAN DEATH ITSELF MORE STRONG" [329]