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HODDER & STOUGHTON
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO
Dedicated
TO MY DAUGHTER
ILEANA
"I LOOKED INTO HER EYES AND THEREIN
I SAW HOPES AND DREAMS AND ALL THE
PROMISES LIFE CONTAINS."
And I dream in my waking dreams, and deep in the dreams of sleep.
Fiona MacLeod.
Consternation reigned in King Wanda's castle,—the great Northern Kingbefore whose will so many trembled, before whose smile so many crouchedin expectation. His favourite painter had suddenly lost his wits andrefused to finish the picture he had begun on the walls of the ancienthall where all the great banquets were held—a beautiful hall, where afrieze was being conjured into life by the incomparable art of EricGundian, a quite young man of wonderful talent, who had been discoveredby the