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COPYRIGHT, 1906,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1906.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

  1. [The Vagabond]
  2. [The Forest House]
  3. [Green Adventure]
  4. [Parting of the Ways]
  5. [The Invitation of the Road]
  6. [The Burg]
  7. [Guests of Chance]
  8. [Roses of Trianon]
  9. [Home-Coming]
  10. [The Burgrave's Welcome]
  11. [Tangled Tales]
  12. [The Burgrave's Farewell]
  13. [The *Oubliette*]
  14. [Love among the Ruins]
  15. [*Furens quid Femina Possit*]
  16. ['Twixt Cup and Lip]
  17. [The Skirt of War]
  18. [The Raid]
  19. [The Melody in the Violets]
  20. [The True Reading of a Letter]
  21. [At the Mock Versailles]
  22. [The *Cabinet Noir*]
  23. [The King's Mail]
  24. [Portents]
  25. [The Perverseness of Words]
  26. [The Ways of Little Courts]
  27. [The Song of the Woods]
  28. [A Treacherous Haven]
  29. [The Homing Bird]
  30. [Dawn Music]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Her child eyes were still upon him and seemed to ask for something yet. And, at this, he bent and kissed her gently, as he would have kissed a child] . . . Frontispiece

["The something that lived on, the miserable carcass, the old man—call it myself, if you will"]