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                          THE COMING OF THE KING

                            By JOSEPH HOCKING

_Author of "All Men are Liars" "The Scarlet Woman" "A Flame of Fire"
etc., etc._

                    ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRENVILLE MANTON


    LONDON:
    WARD LOCK & CO. LIMITED
    1904


[Illustration: "'My name is Roland Rashcliffe, your Majesty.'" (_Page
130._)]




       CONTENTS


       I THE COMING OF KATHARINE HARCOMB                 7

      II THE SECRET OF THE BLACK BOX                    17

     III THE KING'S MARRIAGE CONTRACT                   28

      IV THE HAPPENING AT THE INN                       39

       V A MIDNIGHT MEETING                             49

      VI THE OLD HOUSE AT PYCROFT                       59

     VII THE MYSTERY OF PYCROFT                         69

    VIII HOW I ENTERED PYCROFT                          79

      IX FATHER SOLOMON AT BAY                          89

       X THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON                          99

      XI THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER                       110

     XII THE COMING OF THE KING                        121

    XIII AN ADVENTURE ON THE CANTERBURY ROAD           133

     XIV HOW I SAW A MAN WHO BECAME FAMOUS!            142

      XV MASTER STURGEON, THE GAOLER                   153

     XVI THE ESCAPE                                    164

    XVII HOW I LEFT BEDFORD                            174

   XVIII JAMES, DUKE OF YORK                           185

     XIX THE SCENE AT THE PARISH CHURCH                195

      XX THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON                         205

     XXI HOW I VISITED BEDFORD A SECOND TIME           216

    XXII THE CHAPEL OF HERNE                           227

   XXIII THE JOURNEY TO WINDSOR                        238

    XXIV CHARLES II AS JUDGE                           248

     XXV THE JUDGMENT OF THE KING                      258

    XXVI FLEET PRISON                                  268

   XXVII HOW I LEFT FLEET PRISON                       278

  XXVIII WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BEDFORD ROAD             288

    XXIX THE PURITAN'S COTTAGE                         298

     XXX HOW I LEFT MY OLD HOME                        309




CHAPTER I

THE COMING OF KATHARINE HARCOM