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Title: Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy

Author: Charles Major

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YOLANDA

MAID OF BURGUNDY

_By_ CHARLES MAJOR

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

CHARLOTTE WEBER DITZLER

_MCMV_

1905.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
A CASTLE AMONG THE CRAGS

CHAPTER II
KNIGHTS-ERRANT

CHAPTER III
YOLANDA THE SORCERESS

CHAPTER IV
DOWN THE RHINE TO BURGUNDY

CHAPTER V
WHO IS YOLANDA?

CHAPTER VI
DUKE CHARLES THE RASH

CHAPTER VII
A RACE WITH THE DUKE

CHAPTER VIII
ON THE MOAT BRIDGE

CHAPTER IX
THE GREAT RIDDLE

CHAPTER X
THE HOUSE UNDER THE WALL

CHAPTER XI
PERONNE LA PUCELLE

CHAPTER XII
A LIVE WREN PIE

CHAPTER XIII
A BATTLE IN MID AIR

CHAPTER XIV
SIR KARL MEETS THE PRINCESS

CHAPTER XV
THE CROSSING OF A "T"

CHAPTER XVI
PARTICEPS CRIMINIS

CHAPTER XVII
TRIAL BY COMBAT

CHAPTER XVIII
YOLANDA OR THE PRINCESS?

CHAPTER XIX
MAX GOES TO WAR

CHAPTER XX
A TREATY WITH LOUIS XI

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAX AND YOLANDA
KARL AND MAX AT HAPSBURG CASTLE
MAX
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
MAX AT THE GATE OF THE LISTS

YOLANDA

CHAPTER I

A CASTLE AMONG THE CRAGS

Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and
persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I
should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason
than to assist several well-established heroes down from their
pedestals. Great Charlemagne might come to earth's level, his
patriarchal, flowing beard might drop from his face, and we might see
him as he really was--a plucked and toothless old savage, with no more
Christianity than Jacob, and with all of Jacob's greed. Richard of
England, styled by hero-worshippers "The Lion-hearted," might be
re-christened "The Wolf-hearted," and the famous Du Guesclin might seem
to us a half-brutish vagab