Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers.
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
| "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 |