CONTENTS.

PROLOGUE.

I. PRACTICAL POLITICS.

II. REVOLUTION AND ROSE-WATER.

III. THE RIVAL HEIR.

IV. THE STERN PARENT.

V. TWO DIPLOMATISTS.

VI. THE RED GODS CALL.

VII. THE ENEMY IN THE WAY.

VIII. A PORT OF REFUGE.

IX. ARTS OF PEACE.

X. THE INTERVENTION OF THE ADMIRAL.

XI. THE SYMPATHY OF EUROPE.

XII. A BAPTISM OF FIRE.

XIII. KNIGHTLY EMULATION.

XIV. IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO.

XV. THE TOWER OF SEGRETI.

XVI. THE CONSULS TO THE RESCUE.

XVII. THE HOPE THAT FAILED.

XVIII. A RUSE DE GUERRE.

XIX. THE BITTER END.

XX. FUGITIVES.

XXI. THE BRITISH FLAG.

XXII. CHANGES AND CHANCES.

XXIII. AN UNHOLY COMPACT.

XXIV. THE WAGES OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

XXV. A CONTESTED ELECTION.

XXVI. PAYING THE BILL.

THE HERITAGE.

PROLOGUE.

Night was falling in the leafless beech forest which covered a spurof the Balkans. There was a thin sprinkling of snow on the rockyground, but it was frozen hard, and showed no trace of the leathermoccasins of the two men who were climbing the slope. Both woreunobtrusive uniforms of dull grey, almost concealed by huge browngreatcoats with hoods, and carried rifles slung across their backs;but while one was a stolid peasant, the other had a keen intellectualface, not devoid of a certain tincture of what may without offence betermed “slimness.” It was a face familiar to many Emathianmountaineers, and to a few startled Roumis, as that of LazarNilischeff, a prominent leader of revolt. As he and his followermounted the path, two men, somewhat similar to them in aspect, butwith a slight difference in their equipment, came out from among thetrees to meet them, and one of them greeted Ni

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