STANLEY WEYMAN

AUTHOR OF "A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," ETC.

SECOND IMPRESSION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
AND BOMBAY
1903

WORKS BY STANLEY WEYMAN.
The House of the Wolf.
The New Rector.
The Story of Francis Cludde.
A Gentleman of France.
The Man in Black.
Under the Red Robe.
My Lady Rotha.
The Red Cockade.
Shrewsbury.
Sophia.
The Castle Inn.
From the Memoirs of a Minister of France.
Count Hannibal.
In Kings' Byways.
The Long Night.

CONTENTS

I.A Student of Theology[1]
II.The House on the Ramparts[16]
III.The Quintessential Stone[31]
IV.Cæsar Basterga[45]
V.The Elixir Vitæ[59]
VI.To Take or Leave[74]
VII.A Second Tissot[88]
VIII.On the Threshold[102]
IX.Melusina[116]
X.Auctio Fit: Venit Vita[129]
XI.By This or That[143]
XII.The Cup and the Lip[157]
XIII.A Mystery Solved[172]
XIV."And Only One Dose in all the World!"[185]
XV.On the Bridge[200]
XVI.A Glove and What Came of It[215]
XVII.The Remedium[227]
XVIII.The Bargain Struck[242]
XIX.The Departure of the Rats[257]
XX.In the Darkened Room[271]
XXI.The Remedium[285]
XXII.Two Nails in the Wall[301]
XXIII.In Two Characters[318]
XXIV.Armes! Armes![335]
XXV.Basterga at Argos[350]
XXVI.The Dawn[365]

CHAPTER I.