CONTENTS.

ILKA ON THE HILL-TOP
ANNUNCIATA
UNDER THE GLACIER
A KNIGHT OF DANNEBROG
MABEL AND I (_A Philosophical Fairy Tale_)
HOW MR. STORM MET HIS DESTINY




ILKA ON THE HILL-TOP


I.


Mr. Julius Hahn and his son Fritz were on a summer journey in the
Tyrol. They had started from Mayrhofen early in the afternoon, on two
meek-eyed, spiritless farm horses, and they intended to reach Ginzling
before night-fall.

There was a great blaze of splendor hidden somewhere behind the
western mountain-tops; broad bars of fiery light were climbing the
sky, and the chalets and the Alpine meadows shone in a soft crimson
illumination. The Zemmbach, which is of a choleric temperament, was
seething and brawling in its rocky bed, and now and then sent up a