Chapter I: Front Matter

TOWER OF IVORY

BY MRS. ATHERTON

THE CONQUEROR
A FEW OF HAMILTON’S LETTERS
ANCESTORS
THE GORGEOUS ISLE
RULERS OF KINGS
THE ARISTOCRATS
THE TRAVELLING THIRDS
THE BELL IN THE FOG
PATIENCE SPARHAWK AND HER TIMES
SENATOR NORTH
HIS FORTUNATE GRACE

_CALIFORNIA SERIES_

REZÁNOV
THE DOOMSWOMAN
THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES
A DAUGHTER OF THE VINE
THE CALIFORNIANS
AMERICAN WIVES AND ENGLISH HUSBANDS
A WHIRL ASUNDER
THE VALIANT RUNAWAYS (A BOOK FOR BOYS)

TOWER OF IVORY

_A NOVEL_

BY
GERTRUDE ATHERTON

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1910
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1910,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1910. Reprinted
March, twice, July, 1910.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. WHEN BRIDGMINSTER WAS TWENTY-FOUR 1
II. FLYING ARROWS 5
III. NEUSCHWANSTEIN 12
IV. THE STYR 23
V. ORDHAM AND THE STYR 35
VI. CERTAIN INEVITABLE PHASES 49
VII. THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS 64
VIII. PURPLE LILIES AND BITTER FRUIT 69
IX. EXCELLENZ, THE POTTER 80
X. THE BIRTH OF AN ARTIST 85
XI. THE DIPLOMATIC TEMPERAMENT 92
XII. LA BELLE HÉLÈNE 98
XIII. STYR, THE POTTER 107
XIV. THE SAVING GRACE 121
XV. POTTERS CONFER 125
XVI. THE IVORY TOWER OF STYR 128
XVII. ROMANTIC MUNICH 133
XVIII. THE SYSTEM’S FLOWER 143
XIX. A DIPLOMATIST IN THE MAKING 151
XX. ISOLDE 155
XXI. THE WOMAN BY THE ISAR 164
XXII. PRINCESS NACHMEISTER AS GUARDIAN ANGEL 168
XXIII. ONE OF THE POTTERIES 173
XXIV. THE CRACK IN THE JAR 178
XXV. FRIENDSHIP AT FOUR IN THE MORNING 184
XXVI. FRIENDSHIP IN A BORROWED FRAME 191
XXVII. ADIEU TO THE ISAR 197
XXVIII. A ROSSETTI 200
XXIX. THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS AGAIN 207
XXX. LADY BRIDGMINSTER, POTTER 221
XXXI. ORDHAM ESCAPES A HANSOM IN PICCADILLY 227
XXXII. EVERY MAN HIS OWN PILOT 234
XXXIII. SLOW MAGIC 243
XXXIV. WHERE IS ROSAMOND HAYLE? 248
XXXV. YOUTH 253
XXXVI. THE RACE 260
XXXVII. ORDHAM CEASES TO BE ORIGINAL 268
XXXVIII. ISOLDA FURIOSA 271
XXXIX. PEGGY HILL AND MARGARETHE STYR 276
XL. HAPPY POTTERS 286
XLI. THE PRINCESS PINCHES 293
XLII. HIS HOUSE OF CARDS 300
XLIII. THE WOMAN’S INNINGS 311
XLIV. STARS AND DUST 315
XLV. EUROPE’S BOUQUET 322
XLVI. OUR FIRST GLIMPSE OF BRIDGMINSTER 329
XLVII. A FAIRY COMET 337
XLVIII. THE GREAT PRIZES 342
XLIX. THE SPIRIT OF THE RACE MOVES ON 349
L. THE ROOM IN THE TEMPLE 367
LI. THE ROCKET WITHOUT A STICK 375
LII. MATRIMONY 383
LIII. LOVE 389
LIV. THE CONQUEST OF LONDON 400
LV. THE WORLD AND THE CROSS 410
LVI. A DIPLOMATIST OUT OF THE SADDLE 413
LVII. THE LAST CARD 421
LVIII. THE FOOLISH FATES 440
LIX. WHEN ORDHAM WAS BRIDGMINSTER 445
LX. LIFE, THE POTTER 449
LXI. THEIR MARRIAGE 461
LXII. THE IVORY TOWER OF ORDHAM 465