CONTENTS

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I.A Modern Free-lance[1]
II.Baranoff’s Proposal[10]
III.The Inn of the Silver Birch[22]
IV.In the Princess’s Bed-chamber[33]
V.Discovered, or not Discovered?[45]
VI.Heiress to the Throne![54]
VII.Wilfrid Defies the Czar[63]
VIII.A Charming Tête-à-Tête[76]
IX.A Document Missing[88]
X.The Document Found[98]
XI.“Thou Shalt Bruise His Heel”[108]
XII.A Grim Beginning of a Reign[117]
XIII.The Triumph of Baranoff[129]
XIV.In the Dead of Night[137]
XV.How Paul Died[149]
XVI.The Fall of the Regicides[160]
XVII.A Vow to Slay![172]
XVIII.The Masquerade[180]
XIX.The Princess’s Kiss[190]
XX.Wilfrid Receives a Challenge[201]
XXI.“Your Opponent is an Emperor!”[210]
XXII.“This Duel must not be”[221]
XXIII.Wilfrid’s Abduction[230]
XXIV.The Figure in the Grey Domino[241]
XXV.The Doctor’s Plot[246]
XXVI.Without a Memory![254]
XXVII.The Czar’s Portrait[263]
XXVIII.Pauline Repents[271]
XXIX.Wooing a Czarina[280]
XXX.Behind the Curtain[287]
XXXI.“I Belong to Wilfrid, not to You!”[295]
XXXII.Flight[300]
XXXIII.Reconciliation[309]