PART I MIRRAB—THE WITCH
CHAP.		PAGE
I.	East Molesey Fair	[11]
II.	The Witch's Tent	[17]
III.	Mischief Brewing	[23]
IV.	Friends and Enemies	[28]
V.	Ladies and Gallants	[33]
VI.	The Lady Ursula	[41]
VII.	His Grace of Wessex	[46]
VIII.	Silken Bonds	[52]
IX.	The Veiled Witch	[59]
PART II THE LADY URSULA
X.	A Bevy of Fair Maidens	[73]
XI.	The Fairest of Them All	[80]
XII.	Intrigues	[88]
XIII.	His Eminence	[93]
XIV.	The Destinies of Europe	[99]
XV.	The Hand of Fate	[103]
XVI.	The Ultimatum	[114]
XVII.	An Armed Truce	[120]
XVIII.	The Veiled Witch	[127]
PART III A GAME OF CHESS
XIX.	The Pawns	[139]
XX.	Departure	[153]
XXI.	The Black Knight	[159]
XXII.	The White Queen	[168]
XXIII.	Check to the Queen	[177]
XXIV.	Check to the King	[187]
XXV.	The Cardinal's Move	[192]
XXVI.	The Provocation	[198]
XXVII.	The Fight	[204]
XXVIII.	The Sequel of the Comedy	[210]
XXIX.	Check-Mate	[217]
PART IV HIS GRACE OF WESSEX
XXX.	Thoughts	[225]
XXXI.	Marye, the Queene	[229]
XXXII.	A Bargain	[243]
XXXIII.	In the Lord Chancellor's Court	[252]
XXXIV.	Westminster Hall	[269]
XXXV.	The Trial	[279]
XXXVI.	Afterwards	[294]
XXXVII.	The Cardinal's Puppets	[300]
XXXVIII.	The Last Farewell	[306]
XXXIX.	A Forlorn Hope	[314]
XL.	Poor Mirrab	[318]
XLI.	The End	[331]

THE TANGLED SKEIN

PART I
MIRRAB—THE WITCH

Even Noailles, in his letters to his royal master, admits that the weather was glorious, and that the climatic conditions left nothing to be desired.