PART IV

CONSCIENCE 377

I ON THE BLUE SEA 379

II ETHEL’S VICTORY 392

III A CASTLE OF THE ADRIATIC 398

IV THE LITTLE DUKE 410

V VISITING THE SORCERESS 417

VI THE FIGHT 431

VII THE FATEFUL DAY BEGINS 444

VIII FATA MORGANA TO THE RESCUE! 452

IX STRICKEN IN TRIUMPH 464

X “ON YOUR KNEES!” 478

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Helia at the very summit of the car _Frontispiece_

The Concierge 5

The Cow Painting 13

The Great Canvas 21

The Little Saint John 31

Helia and her “Professor” 35

Phil courting Helia in the Yard 43

Phil arrives at the Hotel 53

Hammering the clay with a terrific blow of his fist 59

Socrate at Deux Magots 69

Stripped to the waist 75

“They are pigs!” 79

On the Roofs of the Louvre 91

“Only put your soul into it!” 103

He encumbered the room 113

A magnificent guardian stopped her 123

Miss Ethel and Empress Eugénie 129

Ethel, who was their leader 145

“Here is the engraving” 159

Giving the Flower to the Child 169

Cemetery 173

At the Circus 181

Phil rose up, pale with anger 193

Suddenly Socrate recognized Phil 199

“To whom shall I write?” 205

He approached in visible embarrassment 217

Poufaille’s Goods Ready for Auction 227

The Punch d’Indignation 235

Suzanne and Poufaille at the Louvre 253

Ethel and the Royal Throne 265

Watching the Arrival of the Rowrers 273

The Arrival of the Rowrers 277

Ethel and the Little Peasant Girls 291

Phil listening to Ethel 297

They went down into the garden 311

Suzanne and Poufaille at the Country Fair 319

The Banquet in the Ring of the Circus 333

Phil watching Helia and Socrate 351

Ethel stood upright in the ruined colonnade 371

She dreamed under a sky studded with stars 389

She arose angrily 395

The Searchlight on the Castle 407

Visiting the Castle 413

“Does the sight of so many weapons make you nervous?” 421

Helia facing the Assailants 433

The Return to the City 439

The Delegates 447

“Help me!” he cried 457

The peddler of pious pictures 467

The duke stood alone 473

“My people await their duchess” 483