The Woman of Mystery

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Murder	[9]
II.	The Locked Room	[23]
III.	The Call to Arms	[39]
IV.	A Letter from Élisabeth	[59]
V.	The Peasant-Woman at Corvigny	[77]
VI.	What Paul Saw at Ornequin	[94]
VII.	H. E. R. M.	[108]
VIII.	Élisabeth's Diary	[126]
IX.	A Sprig of Empire	[141]
X.	75 or 155?	[156]
XI.	"Ysery, Misery"	[156]
XII.	Major Hermann	[182]
XIII.	The Ferryman's House	[198]
XIV.	A Masterpiece of Kultur	[220]
XV.	Prince Conrad Makes Merry	[236]
XVI.	The Impossible Struggle	[258]
XVII.	The Law of the Conqueror	[277]
XVIII.	Hill 132	[292]
XIX.	Hohenzollern	[310]
XX.	The Death Penalty—and a Capital Punishment	[330]

CHAPTER I
THE MURDER

"Suppose I were to tell you," said Paul Delroze, "that I once stood face to face with him on French. . . ."

Élisabeth looked up at him with the fond expression of a bride to whom the least word of the man she loves is a subject of wonder:

"You have seen William II. in France?"

"Saw him with my own eyes; and I have never forgotten a single one of the details that marked the meeting. And yet it happened very long ago."

He was speaking with a sudden seriousness, as though the revival of that memory had awakened the most painful thoughts in his mind.