CHAPTER PAGE
[Prelude]1
I.[Sheltered People]5
II.[The Undercurrent]17
III.[Rice-Papers]31
IV.[Dangerous Secrets]45
V.[The Pursuit Continues]55
VI.[Rizzio Takes Charge]68
VII.[An Intruder]83
VIII.[Evidence]96
IX.[The Viking’s Tower]108
X.[The Yellow Dove]121
XI.[Von Stromberg]131
XII.[Hammersley Explains]145
XIII.[The Unwilling Guest]157
XIV.[Von Stromberg Catechises]172
XV.[The Inquisition]188
XVI.[The General Plays to Win]206
XVII.[Lindberg]221
XVIII.[Success]243
XIX.[The Cave on the Thorwald]260
XX.[The Fight in the Cavern]275
XXI.[Hare and Hounds]289
XXII.[From the Heights]306
XXIII.[Headquarters]320

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[“His blond hair disheveled, his shoulders coatless, Cyril emerged.”]Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
[“‘Not that,’ he whispered hoarsely, ‘for God’s sake—not that.’”]80
[“Her lips ... were whispering words that she hoped could follow him into the distance.”]128
[“The truth, and he becomes an honorable prisoner of war. Silence, and he is shot tomorrow. Speak.”]218

THE YELLOW DOVE

[PRELUDE]

Rifts of sullen gray in the dirty veil of vapor beyond the reaches of dunes, where the sea in long lines of white, like the ghostly hosts of lost regiments, clamored along the sand....

A soughing wind, a shrieking of sea-birds, audible in pauses between the faraway crackle of rifle-fire and the deep reverberations of artillery—familiar music to ears trained by long listening. A shrill scream of flying shrapnel, a distant crash and then a tense hush....