PHROSO BY THE SAME AUTHOR MR WITT’S WIDOW SPORT ROYAL A CHANGE OF AIR HALF A HERO THE PRISONER OF ZENDA FATHER STAFFORD THE GOD IN THE CAR COMEDIES OF COURTSHIP THE HEART OF THE PRINCESS OSRA [Illustration: A SHOT WHISTLED BY ME. Page 120.] PHROSO A ROMANCE BY ANTHONY HOPE Let the winged Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. R. MILLAR METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1897 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. A LONG THING ENDING IN ‘POULOS,’ 1 II. A CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY, 20 III. THE FEVER OF NEOPALIA, 41 IV. A RAID AND A RAIDER, 60 V. THE COTTAGE ON THE HILL, 79 VI. THE POEM OF ONE-EYED ALEXANDER, 98 VII. THE SECRET OF THE STEFANOPOULOI, 118 VIII. A KNIFE AT A ROPE, 137 IX. HATS OFF TO ST TRYPHON! 155 X. THE JUSTICE OF THE ISLAND, 177 XI. THE LAST CARD, 197 XII. LAW AND ORDER, 215 XIII. THE SMILES OF MOURAKI PASHA, 235 XIV. A STROKE IN THE GAME, 257 XV. A STRANGE ESCAPE, 277 XVI. AN UNFINISHED LETTER, 298 XVII. IN THE JAWS OF THE TRAP, 319 XVIII. THE UNKNOWN FRIEND, 340 XIX. THE ARMENIAN DOG! 357 XX. A PUBLIC PROMISE, 378 XXI. A WORD OF VARIOUS MEANINGS, 398 XXII. ONE MORE RUN, 419 XXIII. THE ISLAND IN A CALM, 440 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. A SHOT WHISTLED BY ME, _Frontispiece_ PAGE ‘WHO STABBED HIM?’ 44 WE TOOK SPIRO’S BODY AND FLUNG IT DOWN, 135 ‘WHAT IS HIS LIFE TO YOU, LADY?’ 196 ‘A THOUSAND PARDONS, MY LORD!’ 270 ‘WE ARE READY FOR--ANYTHING--NOW,’ 302 ‘AT LAST, MY GOD, AT LAST!’ 356 BACK TO NEOPALIA, 450 PHROSO CHAPTER I A LONG THING ENDING IN POULOS