MAX AND YOLANDA. Frontispiece
YOLANDA
MAID OF BURGUNDY
By CHARLES MAJOR
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLOTTE WEBER DITZLER
MCMV
1905.
CONTENTS
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
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 falsegods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, asits idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if forno other reason than to assist several well-established heroes downfrom their pedestals. Great Charlemagne might come to earth'slevel, his patriarchal, flowing beard might drop from his face, andwe might see him as he really was--a plucked and toothless oldsavage, with no more Christianity than Jacob, and with all ofJacob's greed. Richard of England, styled by hero-worshippers "TheLion-hearted," might be re-christened "The Wolf-hearted," and thefamous Du Guesclin might seem to us a half-brutish vagabond. ButCharles of Burgundy,