CONTENTS

Book I
MAN AND WIFE

CHAPTER
PAGE
I. Père Bonot reads the “Courrier” 1
II. At the Place Kleber 10
III. A Looming Bastion 25
IV. At the Châlet of the Niederwald 33
V. The Herald of the Storm 49
VI. The Last Day of July 56
VII. Those Others 67
VIII. Over the Hearts of France 83
IX. The Fugitive 90
X. Waiting 102
XI. The Hussars are at Gunstett 108

Book II
BATTLE

XII. The Blood-Red Day of Wörth 115
XIII. The Death Ride 131
XIV. Night 148
XV. A Bivouac of Dragoons 162
XVI. The Promise 166
XVII. The City of the Golden Mists 176

Book III
THE SIEGE

XVIII. The First Days 191
XIX. A Face at the Window 201
XX. The Beginning of the Terror 211
XXI. The Rue de l’Arc-en-Ciel 220
XXII. La Pauvre 239
XXIII. The Night of Truce 248
XXIV. An Ultimatum 260
XXV. Confession 268
XXVI. The Light in the Window 274
XXVII. Accusation 287
XXVIII. If Strasburg Falls 297
XXIX. The Letter 307
XXX. In the House of Laroche 313
XXXI. There is Night in the Hills 324