CHAPTER XXIV.-HOW MARITZA ENTERED STURATZBERG
CHAPTER XXV.-'TWIXT LOVE AND PITY
CHAPTER XXVI.-REBELLION
CHAPTER XXVII.-IN PURPLE AND RED AND GOLD
CHAPTER XXVIII.-THE DIPLOMACY OF LORD CLOVERTON
CHAPTER XXIX.-AFTER WAR--PEACE
CHAPTER I.
PLAYING TRUANT
A breezy morning after a night of rain. Fleecy clouds, some in massive
folds and fantastic shape, some in small half-transparent wisps like
sunlit ghosts, were driven rapidly across the blue. Hurrying shadows