COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Published, March, 1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I [The Patient and His Doctor]
II [The City of the Plain]
III [A Proposition]
IV [The Thiergarten]
V [The King's Cup]
VI ["Wein, Weib, und Gesang"]
VII [Confidences in a Wine-Shop]
VIII [The Bargain]
IX [The King's Breakfast]
X [A Ski-ing Expedition]
XI [The Iron Maiden]
XII [The Simple Policy]
XIII [On the Warpath]
XIV [Music and the Mob]
XV [The Temptation of Ulrich]
XVI [King and Canaille]
XVII ["Captain" Trafford]
XVIII [The First Council]
XIX [The Chapel Royal]
XX [Bernhardt Disturbed]
XXI [Dreams]
XXII [The War on the Wine-Shop]
XXIII [The "Bob" Run]
XXIV [Rival Influences]
XXV [The Opening Bars]
XXVI [The Parley]
XXVII [Trafford and the Trench]
XXVIII [Meyer at Work]
XXIX [News from the Capital]
XXX [Recruits]
XXXI ["A Surprise"]
XXXII [The Conquering King]
XXXIII [The Lost Sheep]
[Epilogue]

ILLUSTRATIONS

["I've got some sort of an idea," he said at length] ([page 122]) ... Frontispiece

["The lady wants to be seen home—and I'm going to do it if I swing for it!"]

["If I see so much as an inch of blade, this little hand-grenade of mine will play havoc with your handsome features"]

["I drink to our success to-night, I drink to the devil in the devil's own tipple"]