UNCONQUERED

"The stars are threshed and the souls are threshed from their husks." _Blake._

"Men and angels, ye Whom stain of strife befouls, A light to kindle souls Bear, radiant, in the stain." _Meredith._

UNCONQUERED

_A Romance_

BY

MAUD DIVER

_Author of "The Strong Hours," "Far to Seek," "Lonely Furrow," etc._

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY MAUD DIVER

The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE * MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

To MARY

IN REMEMBRANCE OCTOBER 10TH, 1901

"A turn, and we stand in the heart of things..." _Browning._

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The chapters dealing with France, and the incidents connected with these, are founded on fact. I merely mention this because it seems to me that the main incident gains in effect from the knowledge that it is not mere invention.--M. D.