TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.

This book is part of the author’s “Balkan Series.” The full series, in order, being:

An Uncrowned King
A Crowned Queen
The Kings of the East
The Prince of the Captivity

Alterations to the text:

[Title Page]

Add brief note indicating this novel’s position in the series. See above.

[Chapter I]

Change “in that georgeous company” to gorgeous.

“With the certainity that neither principal” to certainty.

[Chapter II]

“understand that his pore pa is struck” to poor.

[Chapter IV]

“her unaccustomed graciousnesness was merely” to graciousness.

“representing St Gabriel of Tartarjé” to Tatarjé.

[Chapter V]

“Come, count, I wish to go to the” to Count.

[Chapter IX]

“striking his mother ... with his little first” to fist.

“because she is—well, angry himself” to herself.

[Chapter XVI]

“The loyalty of my familty is not dependent” to family.

[Chapter XX]

“I’m afraid I had forgotton” to forgotten.

[Chapter XXI]

“Ernestine placed himself between them” to herself.

“she owed it to himself that it was” to herself.

[Chapter XXII]

“like his Majesty’s contrairy ways” to contrary.

[Chapter XXV]

“saw a way out of the diffculty” to difficulty.

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