Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 55077-h.htm or 55077-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55077/55077-h/55077-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55077/55077-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/yellowdove00gibbiala Transcriber’s note: Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). THE YELLOW DOVE [Illustration: “His blond hair disheveled, his shoulders coatless, Cyril emerged.”] THE YELLOW DOVE by GEORGE GIBBS Illustrated by the Author [Illustration] New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright, 1915, By D. Appleton and Company Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PRELUDE 1 I. SHELTERED PEOPLE 5 II. THE UNDERCURRENT 17 III. RICE-PAPERS 31 IV. DANGEROUS SECRETS 45 V. THE PURSUIT CONTINUES 55 VI. RIZZIO TAKES CHARGE 68 VII. AN INTRUDER 83 VIII. EVIDENCE 96 IX. THE VIKING’S TOWER 108 X. THE YELLOW DOVE 121 XI. VON STROMBERG 131 XII. HAMMERSLEY EXPLAINS 145 XIII. THE UNWILLING GUEST 157 XIV. VON STROMBERG CATECHISES 172 XV. THE INQUISITION 188 XVI. THE GENERAL PLAYS TO WIN 206 XVII. LINDBERG 221 XVIII. SUCCESS 243 XIX. THE CAVE ON THE THORWALD 260 XX. THE FIGHT IN THE CAVERN 275 XXI. HARE AND HOUNDS 289 XXII. FROM THE HEIGHTS 306 XXIII. HEADQUARTERS 320 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “His blond hair disheveled, his shoulders coatless, Cyril emerged.” _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE “‘Not that,’ he whispered hoarsely, ‘for God’s sake--not that.’” 80 “Her lips ... were whispering words that she hoped could follow him into the distance.” 128 “The truth, and he becomes an honorable prisoner of war. Silence, and he is shot tomorrow. Speak.” 218 THE YELLOW DOVE PRELUDE Rifts of sullen gray in the dirty veil of vapor beyond the reaches of dunes, where the sea in long lines of white, like the ghostly hosts of lost regiments, clamored along the sand....