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The University Press, Cambridge, U. S. A.

Contents

PROLOGUE
ChapterPage
I. "The English Lady"[1]
II. The Runic Ring[11]
III. A Retrospect[18]
IV. Tragedy![26]
THE STORY
I. The Ravengars of Ravenhall[44]
II. The Mystery of the Reliquary[57]
III. Idris Redivivus[70]
IV. The Secret of the Runic Ring[82]
V. "The Shadow of the Oft-carried Throne"[92]
VI. The Fires of the Asas![106]
VII. "Within the Lofty Tomb"[119]
VIII. Lorelie Rivière[132]
IX. Idris Meets a Rival[150]
X. A Little Piece of Steel[165]
XI. The Legend of the Runic Ring[178]
XII. Idris Declares His Love[197]
XIII. At Lorelie's Villa[209]
XIV. Told by the Vase[232]
XV. A Packet of Old Letters[245]
XVI. Lorelie at Ravenhall[264]
XVII. The Secret of the Funeral Crypt[277]
XVIII. A Craniological Experiment[300]
XIX. The Vengeance of the Skull[318]
XX. Finale[344]

List of Illustrations

"The humming sea, as if bent on securing its victims, came foaming with threatening rapidity"[Frontispiece]
"A dagger flashed from beneath his cloak"Page [ 33]
"A cry of surprise, rather than of alarm, broke from him, as he caught sight of a full-sized human skeleton lying within"" [ 123]
"'By the sacred ring of Odin, stolen by you from Edith Breakspear, I adjure you, speak! Whose skull is this?'"" [ 336]