LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| FACING PAGE | |
| “She swept him a courtesy full of open defiance and ridicule.” | [Frontispiece] |
| “Thus they passed, with small parley, the picket-posts.” | [48] |
| “Richard was dragged along with the British until their position was regained.” | [81] |
| “... The Prisoners lined up and answered to their names.” | [149] |
| “For a long minute he stood there, trembling, horror-stricken.” | [164] |
| “‘My God, Joscelyn, you will not give me up like that!’” | [226] |
| “‘I have seen no human being save our party of three.’” | [262] |
| “‘My Heart’s prisoner for time and eternity.’” | [331] |
JOSCELYN CHESHIRE.
CHAPTER I.
CUPID AND MARS.
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.”
—Shakespeare.