CONTENTS
THE LION'S SKIN
CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC
CHAPTER II. AT THE “ADAM AND EVE”
CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS
CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN
CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE
CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN
CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER X. SPURS TO THE RELUCTANT
CHAPTER XI. THE ASSAULT-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER XII. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
CHAPTER XIII. THE FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER XIV. LADY OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XV. LOVE AND RAGE
CHAPTER XVI. MR. GREEN EXECUTES HIS WARRANT
CHAPTER XVII. AMID THE GRAVES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE GHOST OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XIX. THE END OF LORD OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XX. Mr. CARYLL'S IDENTITY
CHAPTER XXI. THE LION'S SKIN
CHAPTER XXII. THE HUNTERS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LION
Mr. Caryll, lately from Rome, stood by the window, looking out over the rainswept, steaming quays to Notre Dame on the island yonder. Overhead rolled and crackled the artillery of an April thunderstorm, and Mr. Caryll, looking out upon Paris in her shroud of rain, under her pall of thundercloud, felt himself at harmony with Nature. Over his heart, too, the gloom of storm was lowering, just as in his heart it was still little more than April time.
Behind him, in that chamber furnished in dark oak and leather of a reign or two ago, sat Sir Richard Everard at a vast writing-table all a-litter with books and papers; and Sir Richard watched his adoptive son with fierce, melancholy eyes, watched him until he grew impatient of this pause.
“Well?” demanded the old baronet harshly. “Will you undertake it, Justin, now that the chance has come?” And he added: “You'll never hesitate if you