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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

  _12mo, cloth, illustrated. Net $1.50; carriage paid, $1.65_

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  THE PAGE COMPANY 53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

  "It was that of a man coming towards her" (_See page143_)]

  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 Hekate 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. Persephone 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