Christine of the hills

by Max Pemberton

BY
MAX PEMBERTON

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1897

CONTENTS

Page
Prologue.	The Pavilion of the Island	[1]
Chapter
I.	Christine the Child	[ 11]
II.	The Quest of the Woman	[ 16]
III.	Andrea Finds Christine	[ 23]
IV.	The Word is Spoken	[ 42]
V.	A Wedding Journey	[ 50]
VI.	In the Hut of Orio	[ 62]
VII.	Christine Awakes	[ 74]
VIII.	A Man of the Mountains	[ 82]
IX.	The White Room	[ 88]
X.	Count Paul at Home	[ 104]
XI.	Andrea Bears Witness	[ 114]
XII.	Andrea Puts the Question	[ 125]
XIII.	“If the Man Lives”	[ 130]
XIV.	The Whirling Fire	[ 138]
XV.	The Apparition in the Cloisters	[ 147]
XVI.	The Second Coming of Ugo Klun	[ 166]
XVII.	Andrea Leaves Jézero	[ 187]
XVIII.	“Le Monde est le Livre des Femmes”	[ 200]
XIX.	Andrea goes an Errand	[ 210]
XX.	La Prova	[ 216]
XXI.	“Zol”	[ 232]
XXII.	The Morning of the Day	[ 238]
XXIII.	The Beginning of the Night	[ 254]
XXIV.	“Joseph”	[ 263]
XXV.	The End of the Story	[ 278]

CHRISTINE OF THE HILLS

PROLOGUE
THE PAVILION OF THE ISLAND

We had been sailing for some hours with no word between us, but Barbarossa woke up as the yacht went about under the lee of the promontory, and with a lordly sweep of his brown-burnt arms he indicated the place.

“Olà, excellency,” said he, “yonder is the pavilion of little Christine.”

I had called him Barbarossa, though heaven knows he was neither Suabian nor renegade Greek of Mitylene, but an old sinner of Sebenico who chanced to have a yacht to let and a week to idle through.