XXI. A CROSS-EXAMINATION.
XXII. REPARATION.
XXIII. LARRALDE'S PRICE.
XXIV. PRIESTCRAFT.
XXV. SWORDCRAFT.
XXVI. WOMANCRAFT.
XXVII. A NIGHT JOURNEY.
XXVIII. THE CITY OF STRIFE.
XXIX. MIDNIGHT AND DAWN.
XXX. THE DAWN OF PEACE.



CHAPTER I. ONE SOWETH.



'If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it a duty
to maintain our own.'

It is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows herself
superior to mere human invention. While we, with careful regard to
scenery, place our conventional puppets on the stage and bid them
play their old old parts in a manner as ancient, she rings up the
curtain and starts a tragedy on a scene that has obviously been set
by the carpenter for a farce. She deals out the parts with a fine
inconsistency, and the jolly-faced little man is cast to play Romeo,
while the poetic youth with lantern jaw and an impaired digestion
finds no Juliet to match his love.