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A MONK OF CRUTA
BY
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM,
_Author of "The Peer and the Woman," "A Millionaire of Yesterday,"Etc., Etc._
NEW YORK: J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 57 ROSE STREET.
COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY F. TENNYSON NEELY.
A MONK OF CRUTA.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
I. "THE BLACK-ROBED PHANTOM, 'DEATH'" 11
II. "THE NEW ART" 32
III. "THE DANCING GIRL" 39
IV. "ADREA'S DIARY" 47
V. "THE FAR-OFF MUTTERING OF THE STORM TO COME" 50
VI. "AN ASHEN GREY DELIGHT" 61
VII. "WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT YOUR MISSION" 73
VIII. "I AM WEARY OF A HOPELESS LOVE" 80
IX. "AH! HOW FAIR MY WEAKNESS FINDS THEE" 91
X. "I AM BUT A SLAVE, AND YET I BID THEE COME" 104
XI. "ADREA'S DIARY" 114
XII. "WE ARE LIKE SHOOTING STARS, WHOSE MEETING IS THEIR RUIN" 122
XIII. "THE PATH THAT LEADS TO MADMEN'S KINGDOMS" 129
XIV. "THE POISON OF HONEY FLOWERS" 136
XV. "AND MOST OF ALL WOULD I FLY FROM THE CRUEL MADNESS OF LOVE" 144
XVI. "'TWIXT YOU AND ME A NOISOME SHADOW CAST" 154
XVII. "IF LOVE YOU CHOOSE, THEN LOVE SHALL BE YOUR RUIN" 159
XVIII. "SOFTLY GLIMMERING THROUGH THE LAURELS AT THE QUIET EVENFALL" 166
XIX. "BLOOD CALLS ALOUD FOR BLOOD AND NOT FOR HANDS ENTWINED" 174
XX. "THE NEW, STRONG WINE OF LOVE" 180
XXI. "ADREA'S DIARY" 185
XXII. "OH! HEART OF STONE, YET FLESH TO ALL SAVE ME" 195
XXIII. "MY LIPS ARE CHARGED WITH TRUTH, AND JUSTICE BIDS ME SPEAK" 206
XXIV. "THE SHATTERED VASE OF LOVE'S MOST HOLY VOWS" 218
XXV. "A BECKONING VOICE FROM OUT A SHADOWY LAND" 224
XXVI. "LATE THOU COMEST, CRUEL THOU HAST BEEN" 232
XXVII. "GRIM FIGURES TRACED BY SORROW'S FIERY HAND" 241
XXVIII. "ADREA'S DIARY" 249
XXIX. "ADREA'S DIARY" 263
XXX. "ADREA'S DIARY" 275
XXXI. "ADREA'S DIARY" 280
XXXII. "THE LORD OF CRUTA" 291
XXXIII. "THE DAWN OF A SHORT, SWEET LIFE" 298
XXXIV. "A VOICE AND FIGURE FROM THE DISTANT PAST" 308
XXXV. "FROM OUT LIFE'S THUNDERS TO A STRANGE, SWEET WORLD" 322
XXXVI. "LOVE THAN DEATH ITSELF MORE STRONG" 329
A MONK OF CRUTA.