XI. AT BAY 90
XII. A USE FOR A PRISONER 99
XIII. A GILDED CAGE 110
XIV. A PASSAGE AT ARMS 120
XV. MY LADY'S PLEASAUNCE 129
XVI. A PURITAN APPRAISED 138
XVII. SET A KNAVE TO CATCH A KNAVE 149
XVIII. SERVING THE KING 156
XIX. SIR BLAISE PAYS HIS RESPECTS 165
XX. SIR BLAISE PAYS HIS PENALTY 180
XXI. A PUZZLING PURITAN 188
XXII. MASTER PAUL AND MASTER PETER 203
XXIII. A DAY PASSES 212
XXIV. A HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE 223
XXV. ROMEO AND JULIET 235
XXVI. RESURRECTION 249
XXVII. THE KING'S IMAGE 256
XXVIII. LOVER AND LOVER 266
XXIX. THE KING MAKES A FRIEND 273
XXX. RUFUS PROPOSES 281
XXXI. HALFMAN DISPOSES 286
EPILOGUE 296

THE LADY OF LOYALTY HOUSE

PROLOGUE

In the October of 1642 there came to Cambridge a man from over-seas.
He was travelling backward, after the interval of a generation,
through the stages of his youth. From his landing at the port whence
he had sailed so many years before in chase of fortune he came to
London, where he had bustled and thundered as a stage-player. Here
he found a new drama playing in a theatre that took a capital city
for its cockpit. He observed, sinister and diverted, for a while,
and, being an adaptable man, shifted his southern-colored garments,
over-blue, over-red, over-yellow in their seafaring way, for the
sombre gray surcharged with solemn black. A translated man, if not
a changed man, he journeyed to the university town of his stormy
student hours, and there the black in his habit deepened at the
expense of the gray. In the quadrangle of Sidney Sussex College he
meditated much on the changes that had come about since the days when
Sidney Sussex had expelled him, very peremptorily, from her gates.
The college herself had altered greatly since his day. The fair court
that Ralph Symons had constructed h