CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I
A CASTLE AMONG THE CRAGS]
[CHAPTER II
KNIGHTS-ERRANT]
[CHAPTER III
YOLANDA THE SORCERESS]
[CHAPTER IV
DOWN THE RHINE TO BURGUNDY]
[CHAPTER V
WHO IS YOLANDA?]
[CHAPTER VI
DUKE CHARLES THE RASH]
[CHAPTER VII
A RACE WITH THE DUKE]
[CHAPTER VIII
ON THE MOAT BRIDGE]
[CHAPTER IX
THE GREAT RIDDLE]
[CHAPTER X
THE HOUSE UNDER THE WALL]
[CHAPTER XI
PERONNE LA PUCELLE]
[CHAPTER XII
A LIVE WREN PIE]
[CHAPTER XIII
A BATTLE IN MID AIR]
[CHAPTER XIV
SIR KARL MEETS THE PRINCESS]
[CHAPTER XV
THE CROSSING OF A "T"]
[CHAPTER XVI
PARTICEPS CRIMINIS]
[CHAPTER XVII
TRIAL BY COMBAT]
[CHAPTER XVIII
YOLANDA OR THE PRINCESS?]
[CHAPTER XIX
MAX GOES TO WAR]
[CHAPTER XX
A TREATY WITH LOUIS XI]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[MAX AND YOLANDA Frontispiece]
[KARL AND MAX AT HAPSBURG CASTLE]
[MAX]
[THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY]
[MAX AT THE GATE OF THE LISTS]

YOLANDA

CHAPTER I

A CASTLE AMONG THE CRAGS

Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne might come to earth's level, his patriarchal, flowing beard might drop from his face, and we might see him as he really was--a plucked and toothless old savage, with no more Christianity than Jacob, and with all of Jacob's greed. Richard of England, styled by hero-worshippers "The Lion-hearted," might be re-christened "The Wolf-hearted," and the famous Du Guesclin might seem to us a half-brutish vagabond. But Charles of Burgundy, dubbed by this prone world "The Bold" and "The Rash," would take the greatest fall. Of him and his fair daughter I shall speak in this history.