| PART I | ||
| I. | The "Fire-Pot." | [5] |
| II. | The Trial. | [17] |
| PART II | ||
| I. | With the Robbers—The Prsjaka Caves. | [25] |
| II. | The Berdiczov Monastery. | [85] |
| PART III IN THE SERVICE OF THE DUKE. | ||
| I. | Malachi. | [101] |
| II. | Persida. | [114] |
| PART IV WITH THE TEMPLARS. | ||
| I. | In the Hollow Tree. | [138] |
| PART V THE HOMICIDE. | ||
| I. | On Board Mynheer's Ship. | [173] |
| II. | The Moo-Calf. | [179] |
| PART VI | ||
| I. | The Forgery.—One Cipher. | [204] |
| II. | The Legacy. | [207] |
| PART VII | ||
| I. | Peaceful Repose. | [215] |
| PART VIII IN BENGAL. | ||
| I. | Begum Sumro. | [232] |
| II. | Idol Worship. | [242] |
| III. | Maimuna, And Danesh. | [249] |
| PART IX ON THE HIGH SEAS. | ||
| I. | The Pirates. | [267] |
| PART X UXORICIDE. | ||
| I. | The Secundogenitur. | [279] |
| II. | The Quicksands. | [289] |
| PART XI IN SATAN'S REALM. | ||
| I. | The Satyrs. | [300] |
| II. | Witch-Sabbath. | [311] |
| PART XII THE BREAD OF SHAME. | ||
| I. | The Magic Thaler. | [323] |
| II. | The Husband of the Wife of Another Man. | [329] |
| PART XIII THE EXCHANGE OF BODIES. | ||
| I. | The Quack Doctor. | [335] |
| PART XIV | ||
| I. | The White Dove. | [347] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Charles Hope Provost
| PAGE | |
| "Stay, Constable, I want to see what you put into that fire pot—open it" | [Frontispiece] |
| "I took my lamp, descended to the crypt" | [167] |
| "I could read in her radiant countenance how overjoyed she was to be with me again; and I was enraptured to clasp her once more in my arms" | [252] |
| "Thus I managed to propel my body slowly, painfully toward the stable earth" | [296] |
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
THE "FIRE-POT."
The hero of our romantic narrative, or better, narratives, was a constable. Not one of that useful class appointed, in our day, to direct the vehicles which pass over the two approaches to the suspension-bridge in Budapest; rather, he was the chief of a body whose task it is to provoke disturbance, who win all the more praise and glory the greater the havoc and destruction they create. In a word: he was a gunner.
The chronicle of his exploits gives only his Christian name, which was "Hugo."