GOD’S PLAYTHINGS

BY
MARJORIE BOWEN

AUTHOR OF “THE VIPER OF MILAN,” “THE GLEN O’ WEEPING,”
“I WILL MAINTAIN,” ETC.

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET
1913

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BECCLES

		PAGE
I.	[The King’s Son]	1
II.	[A Biography]	23
III.	[A Poor Spanish Lodging]	35
IV.	[Defeat]	59
V.	[Twilight]	80
VI.	[The Camp outside Namur]	93
VII.	[The Polander]	113
VIII.	[The Extraordinary Story of Grace Endicott]	135
IX.	[The Cup of Chicory Water]	153
X.	[The Burning of the Vanities]	180
XI.	[A Woman of the People]	202
XII.	[The Aristocrat]	225
XIII.	[The Betrothed of Pedro el Justicar]	249
XIV.	[The Macedonian Groom]	260
XV.	[The Prisoner]	273
XVI.	[The Yellow Intaglio]	301

CONTENTS