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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • I. The Rassendylls—With a Word on the Elphbergs . . . 1
  • II. Concerning the Colour of Men's Hair . . . 13
  • III. A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative . . . 27
  • IV. The King Keeps his Appointment . . . 43
  • V. The Adventures of an Understudy . . . 56
  • VI. The Secret of a Cellar . . . 70
  • VII. His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau . . . 83
  • VIII. A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother . . . 96
  • IX. A New Use for a Tea-Table . . . 112
  • X. A Great Chance for a Villain . . . 128
  • XI. Hunting a Very Big Boar . . . 143
  • XII. I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook . . . 158
  • XIII. An Improvement on Jacob's Ladder . . . 172
  • XIV. A Night Outside the Castle . . . 186
  • XV. I Talk with a Tempter . . . 199
  • XVI. A Desperate Plan . . . 213
  • XVII. Young Rupert's Midnight Diversions . . . 227
  • XVIII. The Forcing of the Trap . . . 240
  • XIX. Face to Face in the Forest . . . 252
  • XX. The Prisoner and the King . . . 265
  • XXI. If Love Were All! . . . 280
  • XXII. Present, Past—and Future? . . . 294