CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

I.[ROMAN AND SABINE]
II.["IF SHE BE NOT FAIR TO ME"]
III.["I GO TO PROVE MY SOUL"]
IV.[BLACK AND WHITE]
V.[THE MEETING-PLACE OF WATERS]
VI.[KIGAMBO]
VII.[MAMBU KWA MUNGU]
VIII.[WHERE THE BURDEN IS HEAVIEST]
IX.[ALL IN HONOUR]
X.["AM I HIS KEEPER?"]
XI.[A SHADOW ACROSS THE PATH]
XII.["IT IS THE STARS"]
XIII.[MADNESS OR CRIME?]
XIV.["HE HATH AWAKENED FROM THE DREAM OF LIFE"]

SONS OF FIRE.

CHAPTER I.

ROMAN AND SABINE.

Geoffrey was not to be baulked of his purpose. He sat till long after midnight in the music-room with his mother—sat or roamed about in the ample spaces of that fine apartment, talking in his own wild way, with that restless, fitful romanticism which had marked him from childhood, from the dim hours, so vaguely remembered and so sadly sweet in his memory, when he had sat on the floor with his head leaning against the soft silken folds of her gown, and had been moved to tears by her playing. There were simple turns of melody, almost automatic phrases of Mozart's, which recalled the vague heartache of those childish hours; an idea of music so interwoven with that other idea of summer twilight in a spacious, shadowy room, that it startled him to hear one of those familiar movements in the broad glare of day, as if daylight and that music were irreconcilable.

No arguments of his mother's could shake his purpose.