ILLUSTRATIONS

[ Tongues of flame reached hungrily for them, licking above Dan's red-gold hair, but never touching the girl………Frontispiece ]

[ "Oh, father," broke in the girl, "tell him it was noble!" ]

[ In the flash of an eye, Dan was making for the assassin ]

[ Opposite, smiling at him as though they had breakfasted together for years, was the radiant girl ]