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was told to me by the death's head.
The Author.
| PART I | ||
| I. | The "Fire-Pot." | 5 |
| II. | The Trial. | 17 |
| PART II | ||
| I. | With the Robbers—The Prsjaka Caves. | 25 |
| II. | The Berdiczov Monastery. | 85 |
| PART III IN THE SERVICE OF THE DUKE. | ||
| I. | Malachi. | 101 |
| II. | Persida. | 114 |
| PART IV WITH THE TEMPLARS. | ||
| I. | In the Hollow Tree. | 138 |
| PART V THE HOMICIDE. | ||
| I. | On Board Mynheer's Ship. | 173 |
| II. | The Moo-Calf. | 179 |
| PART VI | ||
| I. | The Forgery.—One Cipher. | 204 |
| II. | The Legacy. | 207 |
| PART VII | ||
| I. | Peaceful Repose. | 215 |
| PART VIII IN BENGAL. | ||
| I. | Begum Sumro. | 232 |
| II. | Idol Worship. | 242 |
| III. | Maimuna, And Danesh. | 249 |
| PART IX ON THE HIGH SEAS. | ||
| I. | The Pirates. | 267 |
| PART X UXORICIDE. | ||
| I. | The Secundogenitur. | 279 |
| II. | The Quicksands. | 289 |
| PART XI IN SATAN'S REALM. | ||
| I. | The Satyrs. | 300 |
| II. | Witch-Sabbath. | 311 |
| PART XII THE BREAD OF SHAME. | ||
| I. | The Magic Thaler. | 323 |
| II. | The Husband of the Wife of Another Man. | 329 |
| PART XIII THE EXCHANGE OF BODIES. | ||
| I. | The Quack Doctor. | 335 |
| PART XIV | ||
| I. | The White Dove. | 347 |
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
THE "FIRE-POT."
The hero of our romantic narrative, or better, narratives, was a constable. Not one of that useful class appointed, in our day, to direct the vehicles which pass over the two approaches to the suspension-bridge in Budapest; rather, he was the chief of a body whose task it is to provoke disturbance, who win all the more praise and glory the greater the havoc and destruction they create. In a word: he was a gunner.
The chronicle of his
