Transcriber's note.
A number of typographical errors found in the original text have been corrected in this version. A [list] of these errors is found at the end of this book.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[I. The Vermilion Feather]1
[II. The Night of the Terror]14
[III. The New World]19
[IV. The Man on Horseback]25
[V. The Rat's-Hole]32
[VI. Troy Town]41
[VII. The Bread of Affliction]50
[VIII. In the Shadow of Doom]58
[IX. The Keys of Power]67
[X. The Message]83
[XI. The Sisters]93
[XII. The Hedge of Arrows]106
[XIII. Gods in Exile]120
[XIV. Arcadia House]136
[XV. A Man and a Maid]150
[XVI. As in a Looking-Glass]162
[XVII. The Awakening]173
[XVIII. A Prophet of Evil]181
[XIX. In Quinton Edge's Garden]188
[XX. The Silver Whistle Blows]199
[XXI. Oxenford's Daughter]209
[XXII. Yet Three Days]223
[XXIII. The Red Light in the North]231
[XXIV. The Eve of the Third Day]238
[XXV. Entr'acte]242
[XXVI. The Song of the Sword]250
[XXVII. Doomsday]266
[XXVIII. In the Fulness of Time]274
[XXIX. Death and Life]281
[XXX. The Star in the East]290

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["CONSTANS AND NIGHT WERE DOWN"]Frontispiece
Facing Page
["OUT LEAPED QUINTON EDGE'S SWORD"]48
["CONSTANS LOOKED ABOUT HIM IN WONDERMENT"]64
["THE BLOWS RAINED DOWN UPON HIS FACE"]76
["THEY PARTED WITHOUT FURTHER SPEAKING"]90
["AN INSTANT LATER THE BOWSTRING TWANGED"]118
["SHE STOOD MUTE AND WIDE-EYED BEFORE HIM"]156
["OF DOOM SHALL WE REQUIRE IT"]220