THE END

[COUNT HANNIBAL]

SORORI
SUÂ CAUSSÂ CARAE
PIO ERGA MATREM AMORE
ETIAM CARIORI
HOC FRATER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I.[CRIMSON FAVOURS.]
II.[HANNIBAL DE SAULX, COMTE DE TAVANNES.]
III.[THE HOUSE NEXT THE GOLDEN MAID.]
IV.[THE EVE OF THE FEAST.]
V.[A ROUGH WOOING.]
VI.["WHO TOUCHES TAVANNES?"]
VII.[IN THE AMPHITHEATRE.]
VIII.[TWO HENS AND AN EGG.]
IX.[UNSTABLE.]
X.[MADAME ST. LO.]
XI.[A BARGAIN.]
XII.[IN THE HALL OF THE LOUVRE.]
XIII.[DIPLOMACY.]
XIV.[TOO SHORT A SPOON.]
XV.[THE BROTHER OF ST. MAGLOIRE.]
XVI.[AT CLOSE QUARTERS.]
XVII.[THE DUEL.]
XVIII.[ANDROMEDA, PERSEUS BEING ABSENT.]
XIX.[IN THE ORLÉANNAIS.]
XX.[ON THE CASTLE HILL.]
XXI.[SHE WOULD, AND WOULD NOT.]
XXII.[PLAYING WITH FIRE.]
XXIII.[A MIND, AND NOT A MIND.]
XXIV.[AT THE KING'S INN.]
XXV.[THE COMPANY OF THE BLEEDING HEART.]
XXVI.[TEMPER.]
XXVII.[THE BLACK TOWN.]
XXVIII.[IN THE LITTLE CHAPTER HOUSE.]
XXIX.[THE ESCAPE.]
XXX.[SACRILEGE!]
XXXI.[THE FLIGHT FROM ANGERS.]
XXXII.[THE ORDEAL BY STEEL.]
XXXIII.[THE AMBUSH.]
XXXIV.["WHICH WILL YOU, MADAME?"]
XXXV.[AGAINST THE WALL.]
XXXVI.[HIS KINGDOM.]

COUNT HANNIBAL.

CHAPTER I.

[CRIMSON FAVOURS.]

M. de Tavannes smiled. Mademoiselle averted her eyes, and shivered; as if the air, even of that close summer night, entering by the door at her elbow, chilled her. And then came a welcome interruption.

"Tavannes!"