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Title: Under the Rose

Author: Frederic Stewart Isham

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UNDER THE ROSE

by

FREDERIC S. ISHAM

Author of The Strollers

With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy

[Frontispiece: Kneeling, he received it.]

The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers : Indianapolis

Copyright Nineteen Hundred Three
The Bowen-Merrill Company
January

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A NEST OF NINNIES
II A ROYAL EAVESDROPPER
III A GIFT FOR THE DUKE
IV AN IMPATIENT SUITOR
V JACQUELINE FETCHES THE PRINCESS' FAN
VI THE ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE
VII THE COURT OF LOVE
VIII A BRIEF TRUCE
IX THE FLIGHT OF THE FOOL
X THE FOOL RETURNS TO THE CASTLE
XI A NEW MESSENGER TO THE EMPEROR
XII THE DUKE ENTERS THE LISTS
XIII A CHAPLET FOR THE DUKE
XIV AN EARLY MORNING VISIT
XV A NEW DISCOVERY
XVI TIDINGS FROM THE COURT
XVII JACQUELINE'S QUEST
XVIII THE SECRET OF THE JESTERS
XIX A FIGURE IN THE MOONLIGHT
XX AN UNEQUAL CONFLICT
XXI THE DESERTED HUT
XXII THE TALE OF THE SWORD
XXIII THE DWARF MAKES AN EARLY CALL
XXIV AN ENCOUNTER AT THE BRIDGE
XXV IN THE TENT OF THE EMPEROR
XXVI THE DEBT OF NATURE
XXVII A MAID OF FRANCE
XXVIII THE FAVORITE IS ALARMED
XXIX THE FAVORITE IS REASSURED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Kneeling, he received it . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Taking the book, he opened it at random, mechanically sinking
at her feet.

He threw the dregs of his glass in the fa