FAIR MARGARET ***
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FAIR MARGARET
By
H. RIDER HAGGARD
_Author of "King Solomons Mines" "She" "Jess" etc._
WITH 15 ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. R. SKELTON
London: HUTCHINSON & CO. Paternoster Row 1907.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I HOW PETER MET THE SPANIARD
CHAPTER II JOHN CASTELL
CHAPTER III PETER GATHERS VIOLETS
CHAPTER IV LOVERS DEAR
CHAPTER V CASTELL'S SECRET
CHAPTER VI FAREWELL
CHAPTER VII NEWS FROM SPAIN
CHAPTER VIII D'AGUILAR SPEAKS
CHAPTER IX THE SNARE
CHAPTER X THE CHASE
CHAPTER XI THE MEETING ON THE SEA
CHAPTER XII FATHER HENRIQUES
CHAPTER XIII THE ADVENTURE OF THE INN
CHAPTER XIV INEZ AND HER GARDEN
CHAPTER XV PETER PLAYS A PART
CHAPTER XVI BETTY SHOWS HER TEETH
CHAPTER XVII THE PLOT
CHAPTER XVIII THE HOLY HERMANDAD
CHAPTER XIX BETTY PAYS HER DEBTS
CHAPTER XX ISABELLA OF SPAIN
CHAPTER XXI BETTY STATES HER CASE
CHAPTER XXII THE DOOM OF JOHN CASTELL
CHAPTER XXIII FATHER HENRIQUES AND THE BAKER'S OVEN
CHAPTER XXIV THE FALCON STOOPS
CHAPTER XXV HOW THE _MARGARET_ WON OUT TO SEA
ENVOI
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS;
"A DOVE, COMRADES!--A DOVE!"
CASTELL DECLARES HIMSELF A JEW
"YOU MEAN THAT YOU WISH TO MURDER ME"
MARGARET APPEARED DESCENDING THE BROAD OAK STAIRS
IN ANOTHER MOMENT THAT STEEL WOULD HAVE PIERCED HIS HEART
THE GALE CAUGHT HIM AND BLEW HIM TO AND FRO
"LADY," HE SAID, "THIS IS NO DEED OF MINE"
A CRUEL-LOOKING KNIFE AND A NAKED ARM PROJECTED THROUGH THE PANELLING
"MY NAME IS INEZ. YOU WANDER STILL, SEÑOR"
"THERE ARE OTHERS WHERE THEY CAME FROM"
"TO-DAY I DARE TO HOPE THAT IT MAY BE OTHERWISE"
"WAY! MAKE WAY FOR THE MARCHIONESS OF MORELLA!"
"I CUT HIM DOWN, AND BY MISFORTUNE KILLED HIM"
"WE ARE PLAYERS IN A STRANGE GAME, MY LADY MARGARET"
"YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT ME FIRST, PETER"
FAIR MARGARET
CHAPTER I