It pleased her to crouch on this, remembering how Kneedrock had declared her to be the reincarnation of just such another creature of the jungle.

CONTENTS

I. [On a Moonlight Night in Simla]7
II. [A Psychological Contretemps]18
III. [The Cobra in the Corner]29
IV. [A White Slipper and a Red Stain]38
V. [The Question of the Dead Alive]49
VI. [A Hard Man and Bitter]59
VII. [The Cross and the Crown]69
VIII. [In a World within a World]80
IX. [There's a Lass in Dundee!]91
X. [A Prayer and a Prophecy]102
XI. [Things One Shouldn't Say]113
XII. [The Joy of Interest]123
XIII. [Surprises for the Broken-Hearted]131
XIV. [Truths, Kisses, and Ducal Ennui]140
XV. [A Last Walk and a Last Appeal]149
XVI. [Where Amor Led]160
XVII. [The Intervention of the Unforeseen]171
XVIII. [At Cross Saddle]182
XIX. [Fate's Fearful Ingenuity]187
XX. [Fires of One Kind and Another]191
XXI. [An End to the Gossip]200
XXII. [The Interrupted Honeymoon]211
XXIII. [A Mysterious Widow of Bath]222
XXIV. [The Disinterested Married Man]233
XXV. [The Interested Married Man]245
XXVI. [Three Persons Go Three Ways]250
XXVII. [Reason Tottering on Its Throne]261
XXVIII. [Incarnate or Reincarnate]269
XXIX. [The Mantle of Heroism]280
XXX. [A Letter and a Legacy]292
XXXI. [What They Knew and Thought]299

THE TIGRESS

CHAPTER I

On a Moonlight Night in Simla