Chapter I: Prologue: 1

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCTORY 17

II. THE MENACE AT SUNSET 23

III. A WOMAN’S FEARS 36

IV. AT THE BREAK OF DAWN 46

V. STRANGE CONFIDENCES 56

VI. A SAINT AND A SINNER 65

VII. GRAVE SUSPICIONS 79

VIII. THE INVOLVING OF CONSTANCE ALLETSON 87

IX. A LADY’S GLOVE 105

X. “HECTOR” MANIFESTS ANTIPATHY 114

XI. THE DISCOVERY 124

XII. A WARNING 137

XIII. THE POWER OF THE MYSTIC 149

XIV. HERBERT CANNING, LONDON 167

XV. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER 178

XVI. A PROBLEM TO UNRAVEL 189

XVII. THE ABBESS 199

XVIII. FATE DEFIED 211

XIX. HEART-SEARCHINGS 224

XX. THE DECISION OF THE “COMBINE” 231

XXI. HOW EAST RULES WEST 242

XXII. ALMOST A TRAGEDY! 254

XXIII. “THE WRITING ON THE WALL” 274

XXIV. FAIL NOT, GREAT WIZARD! 288

XXV. “I AM BUT AS THE DUST” 298

XXVI. TILL THE STARS MEET 310

XXVII. AT LAST! OH BELOVED! 316

AGAR HALFI THE MYSTIC