LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Artist and Model | [Frontispiece] |
| Persian Gulf | [Title Page] |
| Buried Alive | [5] |
| Execution | [61] |
| The Three Pauls | [154] |
| The Waxen Image | [238] |
| Chieftain's Destiny | [322] |
| The Bastille | [338] |
CHAPTER I.
Buried Alive.—The Landlord's Story.
"Bravo, Oldstone! A very capital story!" cried several members at once. "It is a pity our host isn't here to have heard it."
"I heard a good part of it, though, gentlemen," said a voice from a dark corner of the room (for the lights had been extinguished, though it was still murky without).