LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"JACQUELINE" "She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the Napoleonic sphinx" _Frontispiece_
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"MURGUIA" "He had evidently passed through salty spray, had braved the deep, this shrinking old man in frayed black" 16
"RODRIGO GALAN" "The fierce stranger, however, seemed undecided. His brow furrowed, and for the moment he only stared" 18
"JOHN DINWIDDIE DRISCOLL, THE MISSOURIAN" "His cheeks were smooth, but they were tight and hard and brown from the weathering of sun and blizzard" 38
"COLONEL DUPIN" "The Tiger of the Tropics ... the chief of Contra Guerrillas" 94
THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN 134
"MARIA DE LA LUZ" "The tapestry behind them parted and fell" 146
"BERTHE" "... brought down the ponderous knocker so terrifically that it abashed her, for all her present agitation" 220
PART FIRST
THE THORN IN THE LAND OF ROSES
"Array you, lordyngs, one and all, For here begins no peace." --_The Ballad of the Battle of Otterburn_
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