Published, August, 1905

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To

MY TWO BEST FRIENDS

My Father and my Mother

CONTENTS
PART I. The Thorn in the Land of Roses
I.A Wilful Maid Arrives[3]
II.A Fra Diavolo in the Land of Roses[11]
III.The Violent End of a Terrible Bandit[18]
IV.La Luz, Blockade Runner[27]
V.The Storm Centre[34]
VI.A Bruising of Arms for Jacqueline[45]
VII.Swordsmanship in the Dark[55]
VIII.The Thoughts of Youth May Be Prodigiously Long Thoughts[64]
IX.Toll-Taking in the Huasteca[69]
X.The Brigand Chief[80]
XI.The Cossacks and Their Tiger Colonel[89]
XII.Pastime Passing Excellent[98]
XIII.Unregistered in Any Studbook[108]
XIV.The Herald of the Fair God[114]
XV.The Ritual[122]
XVI.He of the Debonair Sceptre[131]
XVII.Rather a Small Man[140]
XVIII.Little Monarchs, Big Mistakes[149]
XIX.A Tartar, and a Tartar[156]
XX.In the Wake of Princely Cavalcades[164]
XXI.The Red Mongrel[173]
XXII.“Equidad en la Justicia”[182]
XXIII.A Curious Pagan Rite[188]
XXIV.The Man Who Did Not Want to be Shot[193]
XXV.The Person on the Other Horse[200]
XXVI.The Strangest Avowal of Love[209]
XXVII.Berthe[219]
XXVIII.“Mike”[228]
XXIX.The Whisper of the Sphinx[238]
XXX.The Ambassador[242]
XXXI.Carlota[253]
XXXII.The Woman Who Did Not Hesitate[258]
XXXIII.A Sponsor to the Fat Padre[266]
PART II. The Rose That Was a Thorn in the Land of Roses
I.Meagre Shanks[273]
II.The Black Decree[284]
III.As Between Women[293]
IV.The Lacking Coincidence[298]
V.The Missourians[306]
VI.If a Kiss Were All[315]
VII.A Crop of Colonels[324]
VIII.Royal Resolution[335]
IX.Interpreter to the Almighty[344]
X.Alone Among His Loving Subjects[351]
XI.Fatality and the Missourian[359]
XII.The Rendezvous of the Republic[369]
XIII.A Buccaneer and a Battle[380]
XIV.Blood and Noise–What Else?[391]
XV.Of All News the Most Spiteful[406]
XVI.Vendetta’s Half Sister, Better Born[422]
XVII.Under a Spanish Cloak[434]
XVIII.El Chaparrito[443]
XIX.In Articulo Mortis[459]
XX.Knighthood’s Belated Flower[465]
XXI.The Title of Nobility[475]
XXII.The Abbey of Mount Regret[484]
XXIII.The Contrariness of Jacqueline[496]
XXIV.The Journalistic Sagacity of a Daniel[506]

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