ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE [I unsheathed my Saxon sword] Frontispiece [Slipped a length of twisted cloth over his wicked neck and tightened it with a jerk] 12 [I gave him the spear as he lowered his head] 62 [“Die, then!” she yelled; “and may a thousand curses weigh down your souls!”] 84 [The Princes stood hesitating as I towered before them] 110 [Stern, inflexible, I frowned upon them] 154 [“By Abraham! noble Sir, those greaves become your legs!”] 182 [“I will not trust you!” she screamed] 234 [Five hundred of us charged boldly ten thousand Frenchmen!] 270 [Flamaucœur had taken it full in his side] 276 [Looking gently in the dead girl’s face, was Blodwen—Blodwen—my thousand-years-dead wife]288 [She proffered it to me] 318 [He kept those yellow orbs turned upon the garden] 364 [The great bird was dropping his ivory beak into the sweet chalice] 372 [Then came the scoundrel Spaniard, his lean, hungry face all drawn and puckered with his wicked passions] 446 The Wonderful AdventuresofPhra the Phoenician