"HE SAW A DULL HEAVY SMOKE ARISE TO THE CEILING" | Frontispiece |
"HE WAS A TALL, DARK GENTLEMAN, DRESSED IN BLACK FROM HEAD TO FOOT" | To face page 8 |
"'I AM THY UNCLE,' SAID THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN" | ""12 |
"AT THAT MOMENT SHE LOOKED UP" | ""18 |
"HE SUDDENLY BEGAN AN UNCOUTH, GROTESQUE DANCE" | ""22 |
"HE LIGHTED A MATCH AND DROPPED IT INTO THE VASE" | ""30 |
"OLIVER GAVE A PIPING CRY" | ""36 |
"AT THE OPEN DOOR-WAY STOOD GASPARD AND HIS MASTER" | ""42 |
"CREEPING CAUTIOUSLY FORWARD, OLIVER CAME TO THE CHIMNEY-PIECE" | ""46 |
"'GOOD-DAY, MONSIEUR,' SAID A FAMILIAR VOICE" | ""56 |
"THE QUESTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND SO STARTLING THAT OLIVER SANK BACK IN HIS SEAT" | ""58 |
"SUCH WAS THE WORKSHOP IN WHICH THE TWO LABORED TOGETHER" | ""70 |
"THEY SAW ARNOLD DE VILLENEUVE, THE GREAT MASTER, UPON THE FLOOR" | ""74 |
"SHE HELD THE BOOK IN THE FLAMES WHILE TALKING, HER EYES FIXED INTENTLY UPON IT" | ""84 |
"HE LEANED OVER AND LOOKED INTO HER FACE" | ""86 |
"AND STRIPPED THE FALSE BODY OFF OF HIM AS YOU MIGHT STRIP OFF A MAN'S COAT" | ""94 |
"HE SAW WITHIN AN OVAL MIRROR SET IN A HEAVY FRAME OF COPPER" | ""98 |
"THE INNKEEPER SERVED HIM IN PERSON" | ""102 |
"'MAD!' SAID OLIVER, 'WHY AM I MAD?'" | ""110 |
"HE IS CLAD IN A LOOSE DRESSING-ROBE OF FIGURED CLOTH, AND LIES IN BED READING HIS BOOK" | ""114 |
"OLIVER SPREAD OUT THE GEMS UPON THE TABLE WITH HIS HAND" | ""124 |
"ENTER OLIVER AND MADEMOISELLE CÉLESTE" | ""130 |
"'DO YOU KNOW,' SAID THE MARQUIS, 'WHAT A THING IT IS THAT YOU ASK?'" | ""136 |
"HE SANK ON HIS KNEES BESIDE HER" | ""140 |
"SHE DREW HER DOWN UNTIL THE GIRL KNEELED UPON THE FLOOR BESIDE HER" | ""146 |
"'MONSIEUR THE COUNT DE ST. GERMAINE!'" | ""148 |
"THE COUNT DE ST. GERMAINE, WITHOUT REMOVING HIS EYES FROM HIS VICTIM, TOOK ANOTHER DEEP, LUXURIOUS PINCH OF SNUFF" | ""152 |
"OLIVER FIXED HIS GAZE UPON THE SMOOTH, BRILLIANT SURFACE OF THE GLASS" | ""166 |
"THEY BEHELD THEIR MASTER LYING UPON HIS FACE UNDER THE TABLE" | ""176 |
"SUDDENLY SOME ONE TOUCHED OLIVER SLIGHTLY UPON THE SHOULDER" | ""178 |
"'CÉLESTE!' BREATHED OLIVER THROUGH THE CRACK OF THE DOOR" | ""186 |
"HE FOUND IN HIS CLINCHED HAND A LACE CRAVAT" | ""194 |
"OVER HIS SHOULDERS HE CARRIED SOMETHING LIMP, LIKE AN EMPTY SKIN, OR A BUNDLE OF CLOTHES TIED TOGETHER" | ""198 |