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.