Chapter I: Prologue

CHAPTER PAGE
I. "THE ENGLISH LADY" 1

II. THE RUNIC RING 11

III. A RETROSPECT 18

IV. TRAGEDY! 26

THE STORY

I. THE RAVENGARS OF RAVENHALL 44

II. THE MYSTERY OF THE RELIQUARY 57

III. IDRIS REDIVIVUS 70

IV. THE SECRET OF THE RUNIC RING 82

V. "THE SHADOW OF THE OFT-CARRIED THRONE" 92

VI. "THE FIRES OF THE ASAS!" 106

VII. "WITHIN THE LOFTY TOMB" 119

VIII. LORELIE RIVIÈRE 132

IX. IDRIS MEETS A RIVAL 150

X. A LITTLE PIECE OF STEEL 165

XI. THE LEGEND OF THE RUNIC RING 178

XII. IDRIS DECLARES HIS LOVE 197

XIII. AT LORELIE'S VILLA 209

XIV. TOLD BY THE VASE 232

XV. A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS 245

XVI. LORELIE AT RAVENHALL 264

XVII. THE SECRET OF THE FUNERAL CRYPT 277

XVIII. A CRANIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT 300

XIX. THE VENGEANCE OF THE SKULL 318

XX. FINALE 344

List of Illustrations

"The humming sea, as if bent on securing its victims, came foaming with threatening rapidity" _Frontispiece_

"A dagger flashed from beneath his cloak" _Page_ 33

"A cry of surprise, rather than of alarm, broke from him, as he caught sight of a full-sized human skeleton lying within" " 123

"'By the sacred ring of Odin, stolen by you from Edith Breakspear, I adjure you, speak! Whose skull is this?'" " 336

THE VIKING'S SKULL