Contents

Chapter I. Page Paris One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago . . . . . . 5 Chapter II. The Usurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter III. A Mixed Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter IV. A Youth Trained in the Way he should Walk . . . . 18 Chapter V. Our Heroines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Chapter VI. A Secret Revealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter VII. Tears on Earth, Joy in Heaven . . . . . . . . . . 42 Chapter VIII. Madeleine's Happy Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Chapter IX. One Abyss Invokes Another . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Chapter X. On the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Chapter XI. The Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Chapter XII. Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Chapter XIII. The Secret Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter XIV. The Freemason's Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter XV. Tragedy in the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Chapter XVI. A Funeral in the Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Chapter XVII. An Unwritten Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter XVIII. In Uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Chapter XIX. Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter XX. Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter XXI. Engagement with Brigands . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Chapter XXII. The Morning After the Battle . . . . . . . . . . 156 Chapter XXIII. Return—A Triumph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Chapter XXIV. Alvira's Confession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Chapter XXV. Honor Saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chapter XXVI. Repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Chapter XXVII. The Privileges of Holy Souls . . . . . . . . . . 199 Chapter XXVIII. A Vision of Purgatory—A Dear One Saved . . . . . 202 Chapter XXIX. Unexpected Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Chapter XXX. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214