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THE GREAT MOGUL

by

LOUIS TRACY

Author of "The Wings of the Morning" and
"The Pillar of Light"

Illustrations by J. C. Chase







New York
Edward J. Clode
156 Fifth Avenue
1905

Copyright, 1905
By Edward J. Clode

The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass.




[Illustration: As it entered the gate the bar crashed across its knees.]




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                            PAGE

 As it entered the gate the bar crashed
 across its knees                                _Frontispiece_

 In a minute or less they were free                          83

 And that is the manner in which Nur Mahal,
 on her wedding night, came back to the
 Garden of Heart's Delight                                  135

 "If we go to Burdwan, are you content to
 remain there?"                                             207

 "Out of my path, swine!"                                   284

 Instantly the man was put to the test                      294




_The Great Mogul_




CHAPTER I

     "And is there care in Heaven?"
                    _Spenser's Faerie Queene._


"Allah remembers us not. It is the divine decree. We can but die with
His praises on our lips; perchance He may greet us at the gates of
Paradise!"

Overwhelmed with misery, the man drooped his head. The stout staff he
held fell to his feet.