MAURUS JOKAI

BLACK DIAMONDS

A Novel

TRANSLATED BY
FRANCES A. GERARD

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	A Black Place	[1]
II.	The Slave of the Black Diamonds	[11]
III.	The Man-eater	[27]
IV.	A Modern Alchemist	[35]
V.	The Doctor	[50]
VI.	Countess Theudelinde	[63]
VII.	The Countess's Album	[79]
VIII.	The Exorcist	[95]
IX.	"An Obstinate Fellow"	[132]
X.	The Higher Mathematics	[146]
XI.	Soirées Amalgamantes	[155]
XII.	Ritter Magnet	[166]
XIII.	Only a Trifle	[189]
XIV.	Thirty-three Parts	[207]
XV.	Two Points	[225]
XVI.	Good-bye	[232]
XVII.	The Last Rehearsal	[245]
XVIII.	Financial Wisdom	[253]
XIX.	Filthy Lucre	[259]
XX.	No, Eveline!	[278]
XXI.	Respect for Halina Cloth	[291]
XXII.	Two Suppliants	[301]
XXIII.	Financial Intrigue	[312]
XXIV.	The Bondavara Railway	[317]
XXV.	The Poor Dear Prince	[324]
XXVI.	Dies Iræ	[327]
XXVII.	From the Sublime to the Ridiculous	[348]
XXVIII.	Two Children	[352]
XXIX.	Immaculate	[357]
XXX.	Man and Wife	[365]
XXXI.	Eva Dirkmal	[373]
XXXII.	Crushed	[378]
XXXIII.	Charcoal	[387]
XXXIV.	Csanta's Last Will and Testament	[395]
XXXV.	The Ground Burns under His Feet	[401]
XXXVI.	Child's Play	[406]
XXXVII.	Eureka	[411]
XXXVIII.	At Par	[419]
XXXIX.	The Underground World	[428]
XL.	Angela is Even with Ivan	[442]
XLI.	How Ivan Mourned	[450]
XLII.	Evila	[453]
XLIII.	The Diamond Remained Always a Diamond	[459]

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