Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "A WILD PASSION OF EXCITEMENT, UPROAR, AND TUMULT POSSESSED THE VAST AUDIENCE."—_Page_ 216.] *SARITA, THE CARLIST* BY ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT _Author of "In the Name of a Woman," "For Love or Crown," "By Right of Sword," etc._ TORONTO McLEOD & ALLEN PUBLISHERS Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year nineteen hundred and two, by McLEOD & ALLEN, at the Department of Agriculture. *CONTENTS.* CHAPTER. I. The Victim of a Woman’s Preference II. The Gate of Hazard III. Carlists IV. Sarita Castelar V. The Explanation VI. "Counting All Renegades Lovers of Satan" VII. Sarita, the Carlist VIII. Sebastian Quesada IX. The Quesada Version X. In London XI. "The Ways of the Carlists Will be Hard" XII. Sarita’s Welcome XIII. The Fight XIV. A Coward’s Story XV. The Abduction XVI. After the Rescue XVII. War to the Knife XVIII. At the Opera House XIX. A Carlist Gathering XX. At the Hotel De l’Opera XXI. Sarita’s Flight XXII. An Unexpected Meeting XXIII. News of Sarita XXIV. A Check XXV. At Calvarro’s XXVI. The Plea of Love XXVII. Sarita Hears the Truth XXVIII. How Luck Can Change XXIX. Quesada Again XXX. Suspense XXXI. At the Palace XXXII. Livenza’s Revenge XXXIII. The Hut on the Hillside XXXIV. A King’s Riddle *SARITA, THE CARLIST* *CHAPTER I* *THE VICTIM OF A WOMAN’S PREFERENCE* If A won’t marry B, ought C to be exiled? Stated in that bald fashion the problem looks not unlike an equation that has lost caste and been relegated to a nonsense book, or lower still, to some third-rate conundrum column. And yet it was the real crux of a real situation, and meant everything to me, Ferdinand Carbonnell, the victim of a woman’s preference. It came about in this way. The Glisfoyle peerage, as everyone knows, is only a poor one, and originality not being a strong point with us, Lascelles, my elder and only brother, having taken counsel with my father, fell back upon the somewhat worn device of looking out for a wife with money. He was not very successful in the quest, but at length a desirable quarry was marked down in the person of a Mrs. Abner B. Curwen, the young widow of an American millionaire; and great preparations were made to lure her into the net that was spread in the most open and unabashed manner before her very eyes.