Digital Editor's Note:

Italics are represented in the text with _underscores_. In the
interest of readability, where italics are used to indicate
non-English words, I have silently omitted them or replaced them
with quotation marks.

Some diacriticals in the text could not be represented in 7-bit
ASCII text and have been approximated here. To restore all
formatting, do the following throughout the text:

Replace the pound sign # with the English pound
currency symbol
Place a circumflex accent over the "e" in "fete"
and the first "e" in "ancetres"
Place a dieresis over the "i" in "naive" and "naively"
Place an acute accent over the "e" in "predicant",
"sauves", "liberte", "Jose", and "gachle"
Place an acute accent over the first "e" in "bayete"




MARIE

AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE ALLAN QUATERMAIN

by

H. RIDER HAGGARD