CONTENTS.

CHAP.

1. [The Feast of Flowers at Nice]

2. [In Council]

3. ["See the Path is Clear to a Grand Career"]

4. [Odensburg Manor]

5. [A Victory Wop]

6. [In Which More Than One Charmer Charms]

7. [Cecilia Visits Radefeld]

8. [A Bough of Apple-Blossoms]

9. [The Cross on the Whitestone]

10. [Maia's Choice]

11. [A Secret Foe and Open Enemy]

12. [The Goal in Sight]

13. [Runeck leaves Odensburg]

14. [How an Old Bachelor makes Love]

15. [A Wedding Day]

16. [Scenes at the "Golden Lamb"]

17. [Election Times]

18. [Fortune Smiles on Victor Eckardstein]

19. ["Off With the Old Love, On With the New"]

20. [Maia Must be Saved]

21. [From Heights of Bliss to Depths of Woe]

22. [His Sin had found Him out]

23. [A Lover's Tryst]

24. [A Deed that Wipes Out Old Scores]

25. ['Twixt Life and Death]

26. [How Forces that Are Opposed May Blend]