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PRINCE FORTUNATUS


A Novel

BY

WILLIAM BLACK

AUTHOR OF "A PRINCESS OF THULE" "MACLEOD OF DARE"
"IN FAR LOCHABER" ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1905




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER                                      PAGE

    I. A REHEARSAL                              5

   II. THE GREAT GOD PAN                       21

  III. NINA                                    37

   IV. COUNTRY AND TOWN                        55

    V. WARS AND RUMORS                         78

   VI. A DEPARTURE                             90

  VII. IN STRATHAIVRON                        106

 VIII. THE TWELFTH                            123

   IX. VENATOR IMMEMOR                        142

    X. AIVRON AND GEINIG                      159

   XI. THE PHANTOM STAG                       174

  XII. A GLOBE OF GOLD-FISH                   192

 XIII. A NEW EXPERIENCE                       207

  XIV. A MAGNANIMOUS RIVAL                    225

   XV. "LET THE STRUCKEN DEER GO WEEP"        243

  XVI. AN AWAKENING                           259

 XVII. A CRISIS                               276

XVIII. AN INVOCATION                          294

  XIX. ENTRAPPED                              310

   XX. IN DIR