Cover"HER EYES TURNED TOWARDS IT MECHANICALLY BECAUSE IT CONTAINED ... THE MAN OF WHOM SHE WAS THINKING"
PRISONERS
FAST BOUND IN MISERY AND IRON
By
MARY CHOLMONDELEY
Author of
"Red Pottage"
"But for failing of love on our
part, therefore is all our travail."

—Julian of Norwich.



DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
NEW YORK MCMVI

Copyright, 1905, 1906, by

COLVER PUBLISHING COMPANY

Copyright, 1906, by

MARY CHOLMONDELEY

Published, September, 1906


To
My Brother
Reginald
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Her eyes turned towards it mechanicallybecause it contained ... the man ofwhom she was thinking"  Frontispiece
"A deathlike silence followed the delegato's words"Page36
"'Is she worth it?' he said with suddenpassion""46
"'You are all blinder one than the other, thatit's Andrea I'm grieving for'" "80
"If Fay had come in then he would have killedher, done her to death with the chains hehad worn so patiently for her sake""146
"Fay noticed for the first time how lightlyWentworth walked, how square his shoulderswere""184
CHAPTER I
Grim Fate was tender, contemplating you,
And fairies brought their offerings at your birth;  You take the rose-leaf pathway as your due,
Your rightful meed the choicest gifts of earth.
—Arthur C. Legge.
Fay stood on her balcony, and looked over the ilexes of her villa atFrascati; out across the grey-green of the Campagna to the littlecompressed city which goes by the great name of Rome.
How small it looked, what a huddled speck with a bubble dome, to berepresented by so stupendous a name!
She gazed at it without seeing it. Her eyes turned towards itmechanically because it contained somewhere within its narrow precinctsthe man of whom she was thinking, of whom she was always thinking.
It was easy to see that Fay—the Duchess of Colle                         
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