CHAP.

  1. ["The King has come in to his own again"]
  2. [Newbolt Manor]
  3. [Somerset House]
  4. [New Friends]
  5. [May-Day]
  6. [A First Parting]
  7. [A King's Vengeance]
  8. [Arrested]
  9. [Old Newgate]
  10. [A Legend]
  11. [A Brave Woman]
  12. [A Faithful Friend]
  13. [The Hamlet of St. Mary's]
  14. [The Mystery cleared up]
  15. [At Court]
  16. [Under the Shadow of Newgate]
  17. [The Great Plague]
  18. [Lost]
  19. [On the Track]
  20. [A Great Sea-Fight]
  21. [London on Fire]
  22. [Found]
  23. [Home at Last]

ILLUSTRATIONS

["They took refuge with Nurse Patience"] (missing from book) Frontis.

["The commander of the company handed him a sheet of parchment"]

["He drew out the packets"]

["I will give you your answer to-night," she said]

CHAPTER I

"The king has come in to his own again"

In a large, sombre apartment, in the palace of the Louvre, there was unusual commotion. The Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria, was seated in a crimson gilt fauteuil, wearing her widow's black robes, for she had never cast off the mourning she had donned for her murdered husband, Charles I; and indeed she had unwillingly suffered any of her attendants to array themselves in brighter colours.