Chapter I: Front Matter

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Under the Witches' Moon

THE ROMANCES
OF
NATHAN GALLIZIER

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_Each, one volume, 12mo, cloth, illustrated.
Net $1.35; carriage paid, $1.50_

Castel del Monte
The Sorceress of Rome
The Court of Lucifer
The Hill of Venus
The Crimson Gondola

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Under the Witches' Moon

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carriage paid, $1.65_

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THE PAGE COMPANY
53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

Under the
Witches' Moon

A Romantic Tale
_of_ Mediaeval Rome

_BY
Nathan Gallizier_

Author of "The Crimson Gondola," "The Hill of Venus,"
"The Court of Lucifer," "The Sorceress of Rome,"
"Castel del Monte," Etc.

THE PAGE COMPANY
BOSTON MDCCCCXVII

_Copyright, 1917,_
BY THE PAGE COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

First Impression, October, 1917

THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

_"To some Love comes so splendid and so soon,
With such wide wings and steps so royally,
That they, like sleepers wakened suddenly,
Expecting dawn, are blinded by his noon.

"To some Love comes so silently and late,
That all unheard he is, and passes by,
Leaving no gift but a remembered sigh,
While they stand watching at another gate.

"But some know Love at the enchanted hour,
They hear him singing like a bird afar,
They see him coming like a falling star,
They meet his eyes--and all their world's in flower."

ETHEL CLIFFORD_

CONTENTS

BOOK THE FIRST

Chapter Page

I. The Fires of St. John 3

II. The Weaving of the Spell 13

III. The Dream Lady of Avalon 20

IV. The Way of the Cross 30

V. On the Aventine 38

VI. The Coup 46

VII. Masks and Mummers 60

VIII. The Shrine of Hekaté 67

IX. The Game of Love 79

X. A Spirit Pageant 90

XI. The Denunciation 97

XII. The Confession 102

BOOK THE SECOND

I. The Grand Chamberlain 115

II. The Call of Eblis 128

III. The Crystal Sphere 134

IV. Persephoné 146

V. Magic Glooms 152

VI. The Lure of the Abyss 160

VII. The Face in the Panel 167

VIII. The Shadow of Asrael 173

IX. The Feast of Theodora 187

X. The Chalice of Oblivion 204

BOOK THE THIRD

I. Wolfsbane 221

II. Under the Saffron Scarf 230

III. Dark Plottings 240

IV. Face to Face 250

V. The Cressets of Doom 259

VI. A Meeting of Ghosts 269

VII. A Bower of Eden 279

VIII. An Italian Night 289

IX. The Net of the Fowler 299

X. Devil Worship 307

XI. By Lethe's Shores 314

XII. The Death Watch 323

XIII. The Convent in Trastevere 335

XIV. The Phantom of the Lateran 341

BOOK THE FOURTH

I. The Return of the Moor 351

II. The Escape from San Angelo 356

III. The Lure 367

IV. A Lying Oracle 377

V. Bitter Waters 384

VI. From Dream to Dream 389

VII. A Roman Medea 402

VIII. In Tenebris 413

IX. The Conspiracy 419

X. The Broken Spell 427

XI. The Black Mass 440

XII. Sunrise 453

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page

"It was that of a man coming towards her." (_See page 143_)

_Frontispiece_

"A strange look passed into Theodora's eyes" 83

"Pelting the dancing girls for idle diversion" 192

"Thrown her saffron scarf over the prostrate youth" 236