PAGE
[INTRODUCTION.][1]
THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY.
[IN WHICH A MAN DECEIVES A WOMAN.][54]
THE VAMPIRE’S SECOND STORY.
[OF THE RELATIVE VILLANY OF MEN AND WOMEN.][97]
THE VAMPIRE’S THIRD STORY.
[OF A HIGH-MINDED FAMILY.][140]
THE VAMPIRE’S FOURTH STORY.
[OF A WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TRUTH.][156]
THE VAMPIRE’S FIFTH STORY.
[OF THE THIEF WHO LAUGHED AND WEPT.][167]
THE VAMPIRE’S SIXTH STORY.
[IN WHICH THREE MEN DISPUTE ABOUT A WOMAN.][190]
THE VAMPIRE’S SEVENTH STORY.
[SHOWING THE EXCEEDING FOLLY OF MANY WISE FOOLS.][209]
THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY.
[OF THE USE AND MISUSE OF MAGIC PILLS.][238]
THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY.
[SHOWING THAT A MAN’S WIFE BELONGS NOT TO HIS BODY BUT TO HIS HEAD.][267]
THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY.
[OF THE MARVELLOUS DELICACY OF THREE QUEENS.][285]
THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY.
[WHICH PUZZLES RAJA VIKRAM.][290]
[CONCLUSION.][307]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[DURING THE THREE HOURS OF RETURN HARDLY A WORD PASSED BETWEEN THE PAIR.][Frontispiece]
[HE WAS PLAYING UPON A HUMAN SKULL WITH TWO SHANK BONES.][p. 43]
[HE ONCE MORE SEIZED THE BAITAL’S HAIR.][48]
[WENT UP TO HER WITH POLITE SALUTATIONS.]To face[65]
[HAVING SAID THIS, HE THREW ONE OF THE SWEETMEATS TO THE DOG.]To face[85]
[MOUNTING THEIR HORSES, FOLLOWED THE PARTY.][93]
[HE DISMISSED THE PALANQUIN-BEARERS.][117]
[HE SET OUT ALONE WITH HIS ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH.]To face[118]
[THE KING, PUFFING WITH FURY, FOLLOWED HIM AT THE TOP OF HIS SPEED, AND CAUGHT HIM BY HIS TAIL.]To face[139]
[IN THE MEANTIME A TRAVELLER, A RAJPUT, BY NAME BIRBAL.][143]
[THE BAITAL DISAPPEARED THROUGH THE DARKNESS.]To face[165]
[AS, HOWEVER, HE PASSED THROUGH A BACK STREET.]To face[170]
[AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE SIGNAL WAS ANSWERED.][173]
[THE TWO THEN RAISED, BY THEIR UNITED EFFORTS, A HEAVY TRAP-DOOR.]To face[174]
[TREADING WITH THE FOOT OF A TIGER-CAT.][177]
[THE KING WAS CUNNING AT FENCE, AND SO WAS THE THIEF.]To face[179]
[PRESENTLY THE DEMON WAS TRUSSED UP AS USUAL.][188]
[BAMAN, THE SECOND SUITOR, TIED UP A BUNDLE AND FOLLOWED.][198]
[MEANWHILE MADHUSADAN, THE THIRD, BECAME A JOGI.][199]
[THE HOUSEHOLDER’S WIFE CAME TO SERVE UP THE FOOD, RICE AND SPLIT PEAS.]To face[203]
[MADHUSADAN PROCEEDED TO MAKE HIS INCANTATIONS, DESPITE TERRIBLE SIGHTS IN THE AIR.]To face[205]
[VIKRAM PLACED HIS BUNDLE UPON THE GROUND, AND SEATED HIMSELF CROSS-LEGGED BEFORE IT.]To face[207]
[THEY TRIED TO LIVE WITHOUT A MONTHLY ALLOWANCE, AND NOTABLY THEY FAILED.][223]
[AN EDIFYING SPECTACLE, INDEED, FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: A CROSS OLD MAN SITTING AMONGST HIS GALLIPOTS AND CRUCIBLES.]To face[228]
[THE BONE THEREUPON STOOD UPRIGHT, AND HOPPED ABOUT.][230]
[THEY PREPARED FOR THEIR TASK.][234]
[WITH A ROAR LIKE THUNDER.]To face[235]
[BUT THEIR EYES HAD MET.][241]
[AS THEY EMERGED UPON THE PLAIN, THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE KIRATAS.]To face[277]
[THEN A HORRID THOUGHT FLASHED ACROSS HER MIND; SHE PERCEIVED HER FATAL MISTAKE.]To face[279]
[THERE HE FOUND THE JOGI.][310]
[AS HE BENT HIM DOWN TO SALUTE THE GODDESS.][317]
[TAILPIECE.][319]

VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE.