Chapter I: Front Matter

IN THE NAME OF
A WOMAN

_IN THE NAME OF
A WOMAN_

_A Romance_

_By_
_A. W. MARCHMONT_

_Author of_
_“By Right of Sword,” “A Dash
for a Throne,” etc._

_Illustrated by
D. MURRAY SMITH_

_Third Edition._

_NEW YORK_
_Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers_

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A NIGHT ADVENTURE IN SOFIA 1

II. “NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO JOIN US” 11

III. THE PRINCESS CHRISTINA 21

IV. “THE WEB IS WIDE, THE MESHES HARD TO BREAK” 32

V. “SPERNOW” 43

VI. THE DUEL AND AFTER 54

VII. AT THE BALL 67

VIII. AT THE PALACE 79

IX. “I HAVE UNBOUNDED FAITH IN YOU” 90

X. “IN THE NAME OF A WOMAN” 101

XI. BETRAYED 112

XII. THE SPY 123

XIII. FACE TO FACE 135

XIV. THE COUNTESS’S RUSE 148

XV. A HOPELESS OUTLOOK 161

XVI. “IF I WERE A WOMAN” 171

XVII. A DASTARDLY SCHEME 183

XVIII. THE FIGHT 194

XIX. MY ARREST 202

XX. A WARNING 214

XXI. FIGHT OR FLIGHT 226

XXII. THE HOUR OF INDECISION 236

XXIII. IN FULL CRY 247

XXIV. THE ATTACK 257

XXV. SUSPENSE 267

XXVI. A FORLORN HOPE 280

XXVII. A FRIEND IN NEED 291

XXVIII. A FEARSOME DILEMMA 303

XXIX. GENERAL KOLFORT TO THE RESCUE 313

XXX. THE PUSH FOR THE FRONTIER 323

XXXI. THE RUINED HUT 335

XXXII. “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN” 352

XXXIII. THE END 358

IN THE NAME OF A WOMAN