But beside the marble basin two human hearts had found one another, soul had gone out to soul at last, and Ursula lay once more in the arms of her future lord. PLYMOUTH W BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS Transcriber's Note: The majority of the text of this novel is taken from _The Tangled Skein_, the British edition. Some missing pages were taken from the American edition, titled _In Mary's Reign_: the text in Chapter VI, from "attempting to move, for she felt as if her knees would give way under her" to the end of the chapter, and from "conversation carried on in whispers" in Chapter XXXIV to "draw it from thee?" in Chapter XXXV, was taken from the American edition. The illustrations in this electronic text were also taken from _In Mary's Reign_. In addition, the following typographical errors present in the original text were corrected. In Chapter I, "a hunch of buck" was changed to "a haunch of buck". In Chapter VI, "swords and poinards" was changed to "swords and poniards". In Chapter IX, "Tis false!" was changed to "'Tis false!". In Chapter XI, "You wont be angry with me?" was changed to "You won't be angry with me?" In Chapter XIII, "partly of sarcasm, wholly of insousiance" was changed to "partly of sarcasm, wholly of insouciance". In Chapter XV, a missing quotation mark was added after "Your Grace. . . ." In Chapter XVII, "his latest flame? . . . ." was changed to "his latest flame? . . .", "Your Eminence. . . ." was changed to "Your Eminence . . .", "but. . . ." was changed to "but . . .", and a period was changed to a question mark after "we have the same object in view". In Chapter XIX, "An interview. . . ." was changed to "An interview . . .", "since you wish it. . . ." was changed to "since you wish it . . .", "dastardly trick. . . ." was changed to "dastardly trick . . .", and "Noother consideration" was changed to "No other consideration". In Chapter XXVI, "vaugely hoping" was changed to "vaguely hoping". In Chapter XXVII, a missing period was added after "this dastardly trick". In Chapter XXIX, "In the court. . . ." was changed to "In the court . . ." In Chapter XXX, "commited excesses of unparalleled cruelty" was changed to "committed excesses of unparalleled cruelty". In Chapter XXXIII, "so full of bevenolence" was changed to "so full of benevolence", and "having proved Robert D'Esclade" was changed to "having proved Robert d'Esclade". In Chapter XXXIX, "a graciousnesss, which I so little deserve" was changed to "a graciousness, which I so little deserve". and a missing period was added after "all who were awaiting trial". End of Project Gutenberg's The Tangled Skein, by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy