A Son of the Immortals

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Fortune Teller	[1]
II.	Monseigneur	[22]
III.	In the Orient Express	[44]
IV.	The White City	[64]
V.	Felix Surmounts a Difficulty	[89]
VI.	Joan Goes into Society	[112]
VII.	Joan Becomes the Victim of Circumstances	[132]
VIII.	Showing How the King Kept His Appointment	[154]
X.	Wherein the Shadows Deepen	[196]
XI.	Joan Decides	[221]
XII.	The Storm Breaks	[241]
XIII.	Wherein a Reason Is Given for Joan's Flight	[263]
XIV.	The Broken Treaty	[284]
XV.	The Envoy	[310]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The sight of Alec and his fair burden brought a cheer from the crowd	[Frontispiece]
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"Gentlemen, here stands Alexis Delgrado"	[75]
Beaumanoir and Felix fortified the position	[153]
Joan laughed at Alec's masterful methods	[199]
Stampoff saluted the King in silence	[268]
In a few minutes the three were securely bound	[298]
He felt the thrill that ran through her veins	[306]

CHAPTER I

THE FORTUNE TELLER

On a day in May, not so long ago, Joan Vernon, coming out into the sunshine from her lodging in the Place de la Sorbonne, smiled a morning greeting to the statue of Auguste Comte, founder of Positivism. It would have puzzled her to explain what Positivism meant, or why it should be merely positive and not stoutly comparative or grandly superlative. As a teacher, therefore, Comte made no appeal. She just liked the bland look of the man, was pleased by the sleekness of his white marble. He seemed to be a friend, a counselor, strutting worthily on a pedestal labeled "Ordre et Progrès"; for Joan was an artist, not a philosopher.