CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Feast of Ramazan | [ 1] |
| II | “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” | [ 9] |
| III | The Boomerang | [ 18] |
| IV | The Little Boy in Aberdeen | [ 26] |
| V | As Anythingarian | [ 34] |
| VI | What the Dead May Know | [ 41] |
| VII | The Youth in Fleet Prison | [ 49] |
| VIII | A Savage Spur | [ 58] |
| IX | Gordon Wakes and Finds Himself Famous | [ 66] |
| X | The Price of the Bauble | [ 75] |
| XI | The Beaten Path | [ 86] |
| XII | “Man’s Love Is of Man’s Life a Thing Apart” | [ 92] |
| XIII | The Smirched Image | [ 96] |
| XIV | What Came of the Treacle-Moon | [ 100] |
| XV | The Pitfall | [ 112] |
| XVI | The Despoiling | [ 120] |
| XVII | The Bursting of the Storm | [ 128] |
| XVIII | Gordon Stands at Bay | [ 135] |
| XIX | The Burning of an Effigy | [ 142] |
| XX | The Exile | [ 152] |
| XXI | Gordon Swims for a Life | [ 156] |
| XXII | The Face on the Ivory | [ 162] |
| XXIII | The Devil’s Deal | [ 167] |
| XXIV | The Mark of the Beast | [ 173] |
| XXV | Teresa Meets a Stranger | [ 180] |
| XXVI | A Woman of Fire and Dreams | [ 189] |
| XXVII | The Evil Eye | [ 197] |
| XXVIII | The Haunted Man | [ 204] |
| XXIX | Teresa’s Awakening | [ 208] |
| XXX | The Peace of Padre Somalian | [ 218] |
| XXXI | At the Feet of Our Lady of Sorrows | [ 223] |
| XXXII | The Restraining Hand | [ 235] |
| XXXIII | The Passing of Jane Clermont | [ 246] |
| XXXIV | Tita Intervenes | [ 252] |
| XXXV | In the Casa Garden | [ 256] |
| XXXVI | The Face at the Window | [ 263] |
| XXXVII | Trevanion Finds an Ally | [ 269] |
| XXXVIII | The Heart of a Woman | [ 276] |
| XXXIX | Barriers Burned Away | [ 283] |
| XL | The Oath on the Kriss | [ 290] |
| XLI | Ashes of Denial | [ 298] |
| XLII | Gordon Tells a Story | [ 303] |
| XLIII | One Golden Hour | [ 309] |
| XLIV | By Order of the Pope | [ 316] |
| XLV | The Summons | [ 321] |
| XLVI | The Potion | [ 325] |
| XLVII | The Complicity of the Gods | [ 329] |
| XLVIII | The All of Love | [ 337] |
| XLIX | “You Are Aiming at My Heart!” | [ 344] |
| L | Cassidy Finds a Lost Scent | [ 348] |
| LI | Dr. Nott’s Sermon | [ 352] |
| LII | Trevanion in the Toils | [ 359] |
| LIII | The Coming of Dallas | [ 363] |
| LIV | The Pyre | [ 372] |
| LV | The Call | [ 378] |
| LVI | The Farewell | [ 386] |
| LVII | The Man in the Red Uniform | [ 395] |
| LVIII | The Archistrategos | [ 401] |
| LIX | In Which Teresa Makes a Journey | [ 410] |
| LX | Tried As By Fire | [ 416] |
| LXI | The Renunciation | [ 423] |
| LXII | Gordon Goes Upon a Pilgrimage | [ 427] |
| LXIII | The Great Silence | [ 434] |
| LXIV | “Of Him Whom She Denied a Home, the Grave” | [ 437] |
| Aftermath | [ 439] | |
THE CASTAWAY
CHAPTER I
THE FEAST OF RAMAZAN
A cool breeze slipped ahead of the dawn. It blew dim the calm Greek stars, stirred the intricate branches of olive-trees inlaid in the rose-pearl façade of sky, bowed the tall, coral-lipped oleanders lining the rivulets, and crisped the soft wash of the gulf-tide. It lifted the strong bronze curls on the brow of a sleeping man who lay on the sea-beach covered with a goatskin.
George Gordon woke and looked about him: at the pallid, ripple-ridged dunes, the murmuring clusters of reeds; at the dead fire on which a kid had roasted the night before; at the forms stretched in slumber around it—Suliotes in woolen kirtles and with shawl girdles stuck with silver-handled pistols, an uncouth and savage body-guard; at his only English companion, John Hobhouse, who had travelled with him through Albania and to-morrow was to start back to London, asleep now with a saddle for a pillow. While he gazed, day broke effulgent, like light at the first hour, and the sun rose, pouring its crimson wine into the goblet of the sea’s blue crystal.
For a full year Gordon had roughed it in the wilderness, sleeping one night in a pasha’s palace, the next in a cow-shed—a strange choice, it seemed, for a peer of twenty-two, who had taken his seat in the House of Lords and published a book that had become the talk of London. Yet now, as he rose to his feet and threw back his square-set shoulders, his colorless face and deep gray-blue eyes whetted with keen zest.
“This is better than England,” he muttered. “How the deuce could anybody make such a world as that, I wonder? For what purpose were there ordained dandies and kings—and fellows of colleges—and women of a certain age—and peers—and myself, most of all?” His thought held an instant’s thin edge of bitterness as his look fell: his right boot had a thicker sole than the left, and he wore an inner shoe that laced tightly under the shrunken foot.
Stepping gingerly lest he waken his comrade he threaded the prostrate forms to the shambling rock-path that led, through white rushes and clumps of cochineal cactus, to the town. A little way along, it crossed a ledge jutting from the heel of the hill. Under this shelf the water had washed a deep pool of limpid emerald. He threw off his clothing and plunged into the tingling surf. He swam far out into the sea, under the sky’s lightening amethyst, every vein beating with delight.
Before he came from the water, the sunrise had gilded the tops of the mountains; while he dressed on the rock it was kindling golden half-moons on the minarets of Missolonghi, a mile away.