A Preface
By
Joseph Hergesheimer
PART ONE
PERION
1. How Perion Was Unmasked
2. How the Vicomte Was Very Gay
3. How Melicent Wooed
4. How the Bishop Aided Perion
5. How Melicent Wedded
PART TWO
MELICENT
6. How Melicent Sought Oversea
7. How Perion Was Freed
8. How Demetrios Was Amused
9. How Time Sped in Heathenry
10. How Demetrios Wooed
PART THREE
DEMETRIOS
11. How Time Sped with Perion
12. How Demetrios Was Taken
13. How They Praised Melicent
14. How Perion Braved Theodoret
15. How Perion Fought
16. How Demetrios Meditated
17. How a Minstrel Came
18. How They Cried Quits
19. How Flamberge Was Lost
20. How Perion Got Aid
PART FOUR
AHASUERUS
21. How Demetrios Held His Chattel
22. How Misery Held Nacumera
23. How Demetrios Cried Farewell
24. How Orestes Ruled
25. How Women Talked Together
26. How Men Ordered Matters
27. How Ahasuerus Was Candid
28. How Perion Saw Melicent
29. How a Bargain Was Cried
30. How Melicent Conquered
THE AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
